The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) launched the xTech Brain Operant Learning Technology (xTechBOLT) prize competition offering $1 Million in prizes. xTechBOLT aims to understand the effects of emotion and empathy on learning and memory and the functional roles played by various brain regions and their mutual interactions in relation to emotional and empathetic processing and effect on both implicit and explicit learning outlining the use of one or more tools to locate, track, and trace four types of learning traits.

The goals for this competition are to understand the effects of emotion and empathy on learning and memory and the functional roles played by various brain regions and their mutual interactions in relation to emotional and empathetic processing and effect on both implicit and explicit learning. Understanding these effects will help build the United States Military of the future, by revolutionizing how we teach and train Warfighters, how we build better medical providers, and how we utilize novel brain operant learning technologies.

SCHEDULE: Tuesday 30 November
1000 - 1010  Introduction by Dr. Frye
1010 - 1020  Guest Speaker: Sergeant Major Fischetti
1020 - 1100  Spark Neuro Presentaiton
1120 - 1200  Skillpower Presentation
1320 - 1400  Vanderbilt University Presentation
1420 - 1500  Drexel University Presentation
1520 - 1600  University of California at Berkeley Presentation

1400 Wednesday Winner Announcement, with a Top Prize of $500K! to be held at the Innovation Showcase  (Booth 2588)