James L SzalmaJames L. Szalma, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Central Florida. He received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in applied experimental/human factors psycholog from the University of Cincinnati. His Human Performance Research Laboratory studies how variations in task characteristics interact with the characteristics of the person (i.e. cognitive abilities, personality, emotion, motivation) to influence performance, workload, and stress of cognitively demanding tasks. His primary research interests include signal/threat detection (e.g. friend/foe identification), training for threat detection, and how the characteristics of tasks and operators interact to influence performance in the context of tasks that require sustained attention or that include human-automation interaction. He is currently conducting research on the application of video game-based tasks to train sustained attention, and on the validity of Fuzzy Signal Detection Theory for performance evaluation in threat detection. Read More Read Less