Effect of Specific Components in the Task of Armored Vehicle Recognition

摘要

During Operation Desert Storm, numerous incidents of forces of the same sidefiring on each other occurred. These incidents of 'friendly fire' accounted for 80% of the American armored vehicle losses and 107 American casualties. Determining the cause of these incorrect recognitions is important to prevent further needless losses. Ten Army officers attending The Pennsylvania State University participated in a study to determine the perceptual and cognitive processes that occurred when recognizing armored vehicles. The subjects responded to vehicles as friend or foe when presented with 35mm slides at presentation times of 500 ms and 100 ms. The proportion correct, mean RT, d', and a values were calculated.