Training for Long-Duration Space Missions: A Literature Review into Skill Retention and Generalizability

Pieters, Marc A.; Zaal, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.099

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“…For refreshing skills, even minor refresher interventions can have a positive effect on skill retention [90]. This can be explained by the fact that parts of complex cognitive skills (e.g., declarative knowledge) that were once required seem not to decay rapidly [52,62,89]. It could be demonstrated that observational rehearsal and cognitive rehearsal, which can be time-and cost-effective, are able to help individuals to not only retain the skills temporally but also to adapt these skills to novel situations [66,94].…”

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“…The physical fidelity of the equipment proved to have less influence on the retention of complex cognitive skills [55,56,71]. A high simulator fidelity helped to give trainees intensive practice, which increased stress resistance under periods of high demand [69], and to train system dynamics [89]. However, for the retention of complex cognitive skills, it seemed crucial that the equipment had cognitive fidelity rather than physical fidelity.…”

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Factors Influencing Attenuating Skill Decay in High-Risk Industries: A Scoping Review

Klostermann

Conein

Felkl

et al. 2022

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The infrequent use of skills relevant in non-routine situations in highly automated and high-risk industries is a major safety issue. The infrequent use of skills can lead to skill decay. Research on skill decay has a long history, but not much is known about the relevant factors and refresher interventions to attenuate skill decay in highly automated environments. In the present study, a scoping review was conducted to determine whether the well-known factors in skill decay research are also relevant for complex cognitive skill decay and to identify refresher interventions that are deemed effective for attenuating decay. A scoping review aims at identifying, summarizing, and mapping the body of literature on a given topic. Searches in electronic databases, including PsycArticles, PsyINFO, and Psyndex, via EBSCOhost and Web of Science and Google Scholar were conducted, and documents were analyzed regarding the research question, which resulted in n = 58 studies. The findings demonstrate the relevance of task characteristics and method-related (cognitive-based, behavioral-based training) and person-related factors (e.g., cognitive ability, experience, motivation) to mitigate decay. Additionally, the results demonstrate that minor refresher interventions are effective at attenuating complex cognitive skill decay. Implications for industry and training providers that aim to implement training and refresher interventions to attenuate skill decay in high-risk industries are provided. Researchers may use the information about the influences of person- and method-related factors, task characteristics, and refresher interventions presented in this scoping review as a starting point to conduct further empirical research by taking skill acquisition, retention, and transfer into account.

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Factors Influencing Attenuating Skill Decay in High-Risk Industries: A Scoping Review

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Conein

Felkl

et al. 2022

Safety

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“…However, this training can be time consuming and many simulated environments fail to replicate the space environment accurately, as future space missions will impose unknowns that could necessitate learning new skills that were not included in mission design (Anglin et al, 2017). Skill decay is a concern for long-duration space missions as well (Pieters and Zaal, 2019). This creates the need for enhanced training techniques for on-ground and in-flight environments enabling quick skill acquisition.…”

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Training augmentation using additive sensory noise in a lunar rover navigation task

Sherman,

Jonsen,

Lewis

et al. 2023

Front. Neurosci.

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BackgroundThe uncertain environments of future space missions means that astronauts will need to acquire new skills rapidly; thus, a non-invasive method to enhance learning of complex tasks is desirable. Stochastic resonance (SR) is a phenomenon where adding noise improves the throughput of a weak signal. SR has been shown to improve perception and cognitive performance in certain individuals. However, the learning of operational tasks and behavioral health effects of repeated noise exposure aimed to elicit SR are unknown.ObjectiveWe evaluated the long-term impacts and acceptability of repeated auditory white noise (AWN) and/or noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) on operational learning and behavioral health.MethodsSubjects (n = 24) participated in a time longitudinal experiment to access learning and behavioral health. Subjects were assigned to one of our four treatments: sham, AWN (55 dB SPL), nGVS (0.5 mA), and their combination to create a multi-modal SR (MMSR) condition. To assess the effects of additive noise on learning, these treatments were administered continuously during a lunar rover simulation in virtual reality. To assess behavioral health, subjects completed daily, subjective questionnaires related to their mood, sleep, stress, and their perceived acceptance of noise stimulation.ResultsWe found that subjects learned the lunar rover task over time, as shown by significantly lower power required for the rover to complete traverses (p < 0.005) and increased object identification accuracy in the environment (p = 0.05), but this was not influenced by additive SR noise (p = 0.58). We found no influence of noise on mood or stress following stimulation (p > 0.09). We found marginally significant longitudinal effects of noise on behavioral health (p = 0.06) as measured by strain and sleep. We found slight differences in stimulation acceptability between treatment groups, and notably nGVS was found to be more distracting than sham (p = 0.006).ConclusionOur results suggest that repeatedly administering sensory noise does not improve long-term operational learning performance or affect behavioral health. We also find that repetitive noise administration is acceptable in this context. While additive noise does not improve performance in this paradigm, if it were used for other contexts, it appears acceptable without negative longitudinal effects.

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Impacts on Cognitive Decay and Memory Recall During Long Duration Spaceflight

Rector

Cripe²,

Casler

2021

Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences

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Training for Long-Duration Space Missions: A Literature Review into Skill Retention and Generalizability

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Factors Influencing Attenuating Skill Decay in High-Risk Industries: A Scoping Review

Factors Influencing Attenuating Skill Decay in High-Risk Industries: A Scoping Review

Training augmentation using additive sensory noise in a lunar rover navigation task

Impacts on Cognitive Decay and Memory Recall During Long Duration Spaceflight

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