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New neuroscience-based technologies aim to improve decisionmaking under pressure. But solving systemic problems will take a lot more than that.

Contessa Brewer joins ‘The News with Shepard Smith’ to report on how VR technology is being used to train police officers.

Strategies for reforming policing have dominated the public discourse for the last year, from calls to change how incidents are investigated, to restrictions on how officers use crowd control weapons. In Washington, neuroscientist Dr. Jonathan Page believes the key could be in our brains.

TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jonathan Page, president and co-founder of Preflex First, about cognitive neuroscience and how it helps law enforcement. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.

A police academy in Washington state has incorporated what’s known as “brain training” as a part of its curriculum. Its creator calls it a paradigm shift for police. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee has the details.

Research gives an unequivocal answer to this question: Changing behavior is the best training option.

Almost everything about the microtraining methodology is different from standard training. Officers train on their own, away from groups ...

How much instruction did you receive on the most important tool you have at your disposal, your brain?

Perceptions and actions are initiated in the nonconscious brain, or what we refer to as the back-channel. The back-channel has been wired over millions of years to form associations between concepts, objects, and events.

Most scientists view the human brain as the most complicated system in our universe, maybe even more complex than the universe itself.

The media and pundits say that race affects an officer’s decision to shoot and with some recent police shootings, anecdotal evidence points in that direction as well — but what does science say?