Augmenting cognitive work: a review of cognitive enhancement methods and applications for operational domains

Marois, Alexandre; Lafond, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s10111-022-00715-1

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“…Numerous neuro-applications including neuro/cognitive enhancements are seen to advance well-being [1,60,[78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91]. Well-being of people and society is a main part of the ability to have a good life [92][93][94][95].…”

Section: Neuro and The Indicators Of Well-beingmentioning

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Neuro-Abilities and a Good Life

Wolbring

2024

J Neurol Res

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Background: Neuro-based scientific and technological advancements constantly shape and are shaped by body/mind ability expectations, which in turn influence the perception and meaning of below species-typical (impaired), species-typical (normal) and beyond species-typical abilities (enhanced), which neuro-abilities are desired, and what neuro-ability-related actions are taken. Neuro-abilities from below to beyond species-typical abilities impact many indicators of well-being, or in other words the ability to have a good life. Disabled people experience barriers to a good life, many of which are outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Therefore, it is of importance to disabled people how neuroadvancements and neuro-ability expectations are governed. Abilitybased theoretical concepts could be used to discuss and analyze in a systematic fashion neuro-ability expectation dynamics, the impact of neuro-advancements and human enhancements including neuro/cognitive enhancements on the ability to have a good life and contribute a unique lens to neuroethics, neurotechnology governance and ability expectation governance efforts. Methods:In this study an online survey approach was used to ascertain the views of first-year undergraduate disability studies students on the impact of neurotechnologies, neuro/cognitive enhancements and human enhancements on the good life and the impact of being a disabled person in general and belonging to another marginalized group on experiencing a good life. Neuro-focused academic abstracts obtained from Scopus, Web of Science, and the 70 databases of EB-SCO-HOST were searched for the presence of ability-based concepts.Results: Students indicated that: 1) Disabled people will be increasingly impacted in a positive way by human enhancements and neurotechnologies; 2) Disabled people in general and even more if they belong also to another disadvantaged group experience a lower level of or are more impacted by most of the indicators of the four composite well-being measures (Social Determinants of Health; Canadian Index of Well-being, OECD Better Life Index and World Health Organization Community-Based Rehabilitation Matrix) than non-disabled people; and 3) More indicators of well-being of the four composite well-being measures are impacted by neurotechnologies and neuro/ cognitive enhancements than not impacted. The review of the academic abstracts indicated that ability-based concepts were not used to discuss neuro-advancements or neuro-enhancements. Conclusions:The findings of this study suggests that an in-depth engagement with the impact of neuro-advancements on the ability for a good life, especially in relation to disabled people, is warranted as is the use of ability-based concepts as an analytical lens.

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Section: Neuro and The Indicators Of Well-beingmentioning

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Neuro-Abilities and a Good Life

Wolbring

2024

J Neurol Res

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“…First, in the age of cognitive capitalism (Moulier-Boutang, 2012), it is plausible to argue that workers can have an interest in optimising their ‘assets’ (Marois and Lafond, 2022). As in all eras of capitalism, the production of commodities, including alienable assets, is the purpose of all economic activity.…”

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On the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers in the age of cognitive enhancement

Lindebaum

Langer

2022

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Despite being the subject of public and scholarly debates for some time, the topic of cognitive enhancement remains theoretically under-developed in organisation studies. This is because the ‘dots’ still have to be ‘connected’ between macro-level phenomena (here, the therapeutic ethos and cognitive capitalism), and micro-level phenomena (in this case, cognitive abilities). In this essay, we use Fromm’s notion of social character to theorise dialectally about the interaction between these macro and micro-level phenomena. Doing so enables us to examine how the macro/micro interaction fosters to adoption of cognitive enhancement in the context of work, and what kinds of consequences might emerge from this. We propose the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers as a central consequence of the aforementioned interaction, and define it as an internalised version of external ideals of what it means to be a productive worker under cognitive capitalism, which over time generates and reinforces the affective experience of being deficient. Our theorising around socially patterned defects of a cognitive kind has crucial ramification for our understanding of technology-mediated affective control at work and how human–technology interactions shape the subjectivities of workers towards greater self-inferiorisation vis-à-vis the perceived superiority of technology. We close by foreshadowing avenues for future research.

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“…In recent times, there has been growing interest in the use of neuromodulation approaches to modulate the activity of the healthy brain, with the general aim of overcoming the physiological limitations of human capabilities, both physical and cognitive [ 9 ]. Applications may range from the enhancement of military personnel’s mental and/or physical skills [ 10 , 11 ], to the treatment of cognitive decline, either aging- or neurodegeneration-related, which significantly impacts the daily life of millions of people worldwide, urging the necessity for novel treatments [ 12 , 13 ].…”

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Cognitive Functions following Trigeminal Neuromodulation

Mercante,

Enrico,

Deriu

2023

Biomedicines

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Vast scientific effort in recent years have been focused on the search for effective and safe treatments for cognitive decline. In this regard, non-invasive neuromodulation has gained increasing attention for its reported effectiveness in promoting the recovery of multiple cognitive domains after central nervous system damage. In this short review, we discuss the available evidence supporting a possible cognitive effect of trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS). In particular, we ask that, while TNS has been widely and successfully used in the treatment of various neuropsychiatric conditions, as far as research in the cognitive field is concerned, where does TNS stand? The trigeminal nerve is the largest cranial nerve, conveying the sensory information from the face to the trigeminal sensory nuclei, and from there to the thalamus and up to the somatosensory cortex. On these bases, a bottom-up mechanism has been proposed, positing that TNS-induced modulation of the brainstem noradrenergic system may affect the function of the brain networks involved in cognition. Nevertheless, despite the promising theories, to date, the use of TNS for cognitive empowering and/or cognitive decline treatment has several challenges ahead of it, mainly due to little uniformity of the stimulation protocols. However, as the field continues to grow, standardization of practice will allow for data comparisons across studies, leading to optimized protocols targeting specific brain circuitries, which may, in turn, influence cognition in a designed manner.

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Augmenting cognitive work: a review of cognitive enhancement methods and applications for operational domains

Cited by 8 publications

References 184 publications

Neuro-Abilities and a Good Life

Neuro-Abilities and a Good Life

On the psycho-emotional deficitisation of workers in the age of cognitive enhancement

Cognitive Functions following Trigeminal Neuromodulation

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