Cognitive Fatigue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Current Research and Future Applications

Broad in scope, this book covers human factors and ergonomics; clinical and applied differential psychology; and applications in industrial, military, and non-work domains. A balance of theoretical and empirical research from several different countries makes this a truly multinational and interdisciplinary collection.

Phillip L. Ackerman, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in 1979 and master of arts and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1981 and 1984, respectively.

He has conducted research in cognitive psychology, individual differences, psychological testing, and human abilities. He has also written extensively on the nature of adult learning, skill acquisition, selection, training, abilities, personality, and motivation.

Dr. Ackerman has served as editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; associate editor of Human Factors; and on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology; Learning and Individual Differences; Intelligence; Journal of Educational Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Human Performance; and Journal of Individual Differences.

He coedited three books on individual differences: Learning and Individual Differences: Advances in Theory and Research (1989); Abilities, Motivation, and Methodology: The Minnesota Symposium on Learning and Individual Differences (1989); and Learning and Individual Differences: Process, Trait, and Content Determinants (1999).

Dr. Ackerman is a fellow of APA and the American Educational Research Association, a charter fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

From 1987 to 1990, he held the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. In 1989, he received the Early Contributions Award from the Educational Psychology Division of APA. In 1992, he was the recipient of APA’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (in the field of applied research-psychometrics) for his work on the determinants of individual differences in air traffic controller skills.

He was the 2007 president of APA Division 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology), and he serves on the board of directors of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.

His current empirical research and theoretical contributions address the relationship between working memory and intelligence; the determinants of cognitive fatigue under sustained mental effort; the ability, motivation, personality, and self-concept determinants of skilled performance; and the development and expression of intellectual competence in adulthood.