In the Mind's Eye: Enhancing Human Performance

The archer stands and pulls back the bow, visualizing the path of the arrow to the target. Does this mental exercise enhance performance? Can we all use such techniques to improve performance in our daily lives?
In the Mind's Eye addresses these and other intriguing questions. This volume considers basic issues of performance, exploring how techniques for quick learning affect long-term retention, whether an expert's behavior can serve as a model for beginners, if team performance is the sum of individual members' performances, and whether subliminal learning has a basis in science.
The book also considers meditation and some other pain control techniques. Deceit and the ability to detect deception are explored in detail. In the area of self-assessment techniques for career development, the volume evaluates the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

• Front Matter
• Part I Overview
• 1 Background
• 2 Findings and Conclusions
• Part II Training
• 3 Optimizing Long-Term Retention and Transfer
• 4 Modeling Expertise
• 5 Developing Careers
• Part III Altering Mental States
• 6 Subliminal Self-Help
• 7 Meditation
• 8 Managing Pain
• 9 Hiding and Detecting Deception
• 10 A Broader Concept of Deception
• Part IV Performing
• 11 Optimizing Individual Performance
• 12 Enhancing Team Performance
• Appendix A: Committee Activities
• Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
• Index