NeuroTracker

Air traffic control depends on the ability to monitor multiple moving aircraft, anticipate conflicts, and act quickly without overreacting.

This study tested whether NeuroTracker multiple object tracking ability could help predict performance on a simulated air traffic control task.

Forty-six novice participants completed NeuroTracker, two working-memory tests, and a 30-minute ATC simulation involving aircraft acceptance, conflict detection, and hand-off.

Key findings:

- Higher NeuroTracker scores predicted more correct aircraft conflict detections

- Higher scores predicted fewer false alarm responses

- NeuroTracker also predicted faster aircraft hand-off performance

- NeuroTracker remained significant across more ATC outcomes than the working-memory measures

This is a useful applied finding because ATC performance relies on more than isolated working memory. It requires distributed attention, dynamic tracking, visual prediction, and rapid decision-making under continuous monitoring demands.

Although the task was simulated with novice participants, it supports the idea that NeuroTracker ability may capture cognitive skills relevant to aviation screening, training, and high-reliability operator roles.

Study: “NeuroTracker Multiple Object Tracking Ability Predicts Novice Performance on a Simulated Air Traffic Control Task.”

https://www.neurotrackerx.com/science/neurotracker-multiple-object-tracking-ability-predicts-novice-performance-on-a-simulated-air-traffic-control-task

How much spare cognitive capacity does a pilot have left during demanding flight maneuvers?

This I/ITSEC Best Paper award-winning study explored that question using NeuroTracker in an aviation training context.

Ten pilots performed flight maneuvers in both an advanced aircraft simulator and a live L-29 jet.

During the maneuvers, they also performed NeuroTracker as a peripheral dual-task, allowing researchers to measure how much perceptual-cognitive capacity remained while flying.

Key findings:

- NeuroTracker performance was significantly lower in live jet maneuvers than in the simulator

- Higher-difficulty maneuvers left pilots with less spare cognitive capacity, particularly during live flight

This shows how NeuroTracker can be used not only as a training task, but also as an objective assessment layer.

In aviation, simulator fidelity is not only about whether the controls and visuals look realistic. It is also about whether the training environment places comparable cognitive demands on the operator.

By measuring spare cognitive capacity during flight tasks, NeuroTracker helped differentiate simulator and live flight demands, especially during difficult maneuvers.

The study was exploratory, but it provides a useful applied example of how perceptual-cognitive assessment assess the efficacy of simulated training methods versus real-world performance.

Study: “Perceptual-Cognitive & Physiological Assessment of Training Effectiveness.”

https://www.neurotrackerx.com/science/perceptual-cognitive-physiological-assessment-of-training-effectiveness

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

The brain and body are often treated as separate systems, but NeuroTracker research suggests they are deeply connected.

This review explores how perception, decision-making, attention, and movement interact across sport, driving, aging, fatigue, and motor performance.

https://www.neurotrackerx.com/post/what-neurotracker-research-reveals-about-the-brain-body-connection

An NCAA Division I women’s soccer study NeuroTracker's consistency metric correlated with match performance.

Consistency is a session-level measure of how stable a player’s tracking performance remains across the 20 trials of a CORE session.

High NeuroTracker consistency = steady tracking performance across a session.

Low NeuroTracker consistency = many fast trial successes in combination with low speed fails.

In this study, 13 players completed a single NeuroTracker CORE assessment (6-mins), and their results were compared with season match metrics from WyScout.

Key findings:

- Visual tracking speed from a single session itself was not significantly associated with passing accuracy

- NeuroTracker consistency was significantly associated with passing accuracy: r = 0.650, p = 0.016

This is the first study NeuroTracker study to analyze the consistency metric, with results suggesting that tracking speed stability during the assessment may provide additional sports performance insights.

Consistency in human performance is often overlooked, and may capture something relevant to how reliably an athlete processes information and executes decisions over time.

As this was a small preliminary study, it would be interesting to see future NeuroTracker research make use of the consistency metric.

Study: “Visual Tracking Speed Threshold in NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Predicting Match Performance: A Preliminary Study.”

https://www.neurotrackerx.com/science/visual-tracking-speed-threshold-in-ncaa-division-i-womens-soccer-predicting-match-performance

Can cognitive training help drivers respond earlier when a hazard emerges?

Previous NeuroTracker studies found that baseline performance was significantly associated with driving behaviours in both younger and older drivers.

This pilot study explored the next question: whether training could transfer to simulated driving performance.

Young and older licensed drivers completed either 30 NeuroTracker Core sessions or active control training, then responded to hazardous events in a high-fidelity driving simulator.

Key findings:

- NeuroTracker-trained younger drivers applied maximum braking 7.64 metres earlier after training

- NeuroTracker-trained older drivers also showed a smaller positive shift of 2.63 metres

- Earlier maximum braking was associated with less extreme braking responses

The result represents a promising transfer signal rather than definitive evidence. The primary training effect was trend-level, and the study measured simulated rather than on-road driving.

Still, it provides an interesting extension of earlier assessment findings: NeuroTracker may not only help characterize cognitive abilities relevant to driving, but could potentially support earlier, more controlled responses to emerging hazards.

Study: “Can Three-Dimensional Multiple Object Tracking Training Be Used to Improve Simulated Driving Performance? A Pilot Study in Young and Older Adults.”

https://www.neurotrackerx.com/science/can-three-dimensional-multiple-object-tracking-training-be-used-to-improve-simulated-driving-performance-a-pilot-study-in-young-and-older-adults

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗨𝗽

Small decisions rarely stay isolated for long.

This article explores how many low-level choices gradually stack together, reshaping attention, priorities, and the structure of decision-making itself.

https://www.neurotrackerx.com/post/what-happens-when-too-many-small-decisions-stack-up

Could a brief cognitive assessment help explain performance variability in high-pressure decision environments?

A NeuroTracker study examined this question in 29 retail traders, comparing daily NeuroTracker scores with trading outcomes across 624 observations.

Key findings:

- Higher NeuroTracker scores were strongly associated with higher total net profit.

- A significant relationship was also reported lower NeuroTracker scores and maximum drawdown (biggest losses).

Trading requires sustained attention, rapid information processing, and effective decision-making under uncertainty. These are the kinds of demands that can fluctuate with fatigue, stress, and cognitive readiness.

The study suggests that a brief 6-minute cognitive assessment may provide a useful signal of daily performance readiness in trading — and potentially in other cognitively demanding professional roles.

This was a preliminary correlational study, conducted with both real and simulated trading. It doesn't suggest that NeuroTracker training improves profits, but it offers an unusual real-world example of cognitive assessment being linked to workplace-performance metrics.

Study: “Cognitive Assessment and Trading Performance Correlations.”

https://www.neurotrackerx.com/science/cognitive-assessment-and-trading-performance-correlations