Impact of Multi-tasking Situations on the Dismounted Soldier's Cognitive Load (SiMuCCoDé)

Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Cognitive Load

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05081544

2021-A00733-38 (Other Identifier)

2021PBMD01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The increased complexity of the dismounted combatant's equipment can result in a strain on the various senses (e.g., visual, auditory) that can exceed an individual's limited information processing abilities. The combatant may thus be cognitively overloaded in multi-tasking operational situations.

There has been a great deal of research conducted on cognitive load. A battery of multitasking tests has been developed in the field of aeronautics, but, to our knowledge, no measurement of cognitive load specifically dedicated to combatants has been conducted yet.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• be a group leader in an infantry regiment,
• be over 18 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• be a woman,
• have a heart condition,
• have a visual disease not corrected by glasses or contact lenses,
• have a hearing score ≥ 2 on the SIGYCOP,
• have a psychiatric disorder, a progressive neurological or organic disease requiring drug treatment,
• take psychotropic drugs,
• take more than 28 units of alcohol per week.