Stimulus recognition training and detection methods

A method of monitoring a trainee to determine when the trainee subconsciously identifies one of one or more objects previously associated with a conditioned trainee response, the method comprising:

• attaching at least one biological response sensor to the trainee;
• receiving biological response data of the trainee from the at least one biological response sensor while the trainee is performing a task, wherein receiving biological response data includes receiving biological response data from more than one trainee who has been conditioned to associate one of one or more objects with the conditioned trainee response by viewing one or more stimuli images followed by one or more visceral response-evoking images, one of the one or more stimuli images depicting the object, and each of the stimuli images and the visceral response-evoking images having been presented for a duration below conscious awareness of the more than one trainee;
• comparing the biological response data of the trainee to biological responses linked to ones of a plurality of trainee responses using a processor in communication with the at least one biological response sensor, the plurality of trainee responses including the conditioned trainee response;
• detecting trainee recognition of one of the one or more objects previously associated with the conditioned trainee response based, in part, on the biological response data being linked to the conditioned trainee response included with the plurality of trainee responses, where the presence of the object was unknown to the trainee and to monitors of the trainee prior to detection of trainee recognition of the one or more objects;
• determining whether the biological response data of more than one trainee matches the conditioned trainee responses for the trainees;
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• providing an alert when the biological response data of more than one trainee matches the conditioned trainee responses for the trainees indicating multiple trainee recognition of the one or more objects;
• wherein the conditioned trainee response is below exhibited in a manner outside the conscious awareness of the trainee.