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Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part C

  • 1st Edition, Volume 240 - October 31, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Mustafa Sarkar, Samuele Marcora
  • Language: English

Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part C, Volume 240, reflects recent advancements in the understanding of how elite athletes prepare for, and… Read more

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Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part C, Volume 240, reflects recent advancements in the understanding of how elite athletes prepare for, and perform at, peak levels under the demands of competition. Topics discussed in this new release include The influence of challenge and threat states on affect, perceived exertion, attention, and performance during a competitive sprint cycling task, Prior self-control exertion and perceptions of pain and task importance during a physically demanding task, Enhancing cardiac vagal activity in sport psychology, The influence of cardiac vagal activity on peripheral perception performance under pressure, and much more.

Key features

  • Takes a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on aspects of psychology, neuroscience, skill learning, talent development and physiology
  • Focuses on sports and the brain
  • Contains the expertise of an international panel of contributors
  • Adopts the novel approach of having a target article with critical commentaries on the lessons learned from British multiple gold medalists at Olympic and World Championships

Readership

Academics from undergraduate level to active researchers in the field

Table of contents

1. The influence of challenge and threat states on affect, perceived exertion, attention, and performance during a competitive sprint cycling task
Lee Moore

2. Prior self-control exertion and perceptions of pain and task importance during a physically demanding task
Ruth Boat

3. The quiet eye is sensitive to acute physiological stress
Sam James Vine

4. Team ball sport participation is associated with performance in two sustained visual attention tasks: position monitoring and target identification in rapid serial visual presentation streams
Christina Howard, Sally Andrews and Jonathan Uttley

5. Enhancing cardiac vagal activity in sport psychology
Sylvain Laborde, Lea Ueberholz and Emma Mosley

6. The influence of cardiac vagal activity on peripheral perception performance under pressure
Emma Mosley, Sylvain Laborde, Daniel Minns and Zoe Wimshurst

7. Cerebral Mechanisms Underlying Music-Related Interventions in the Exercise Domain: Methodological Considerations and Empirical Findings
Costas I. Karageorghis

8. Pacing: Ways to train the brain
Andrew Lane

9. Motor Imagery, performance and motor rehabilitation
Tadhg MacIntyre

10. A new era of the cognitive athlete: The neuromodulating effects of esports and gaming
Mark J. Campbell

11. Development and validation of the Sport Resilience Scale (SRS)
Mustafa Sarkar

12. The cardinal exercise stopper: muscle fatigue, perception of effort, or pain?
Walter Staiano, Andrea Bosio, Ermanno Rampinini, Helma de Morree and Samuele Marcora

13. When research leads to learning, but not action in high performance sport
Emma Ross

14. Effects of whole-body exercise on corticospinal excitability
Markus Amann and Joshua Weavil

15. Studying brain activity in sports performance: contributions and issues
Stephane Perrey and Pierre Besson

16. The influence of thermal inputs on brain regulation of exercise
Frank Marino

17. The effects on mental fatigue on human performance
Benjamin Pageaux, Romuald Lepers and Samuele Marcora

18. Brain stimulation and physical performance
Luca Angius, Emiliano Santarnecchi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Samuele Marcora

19. Central regulation of exercise performance
Kai Lutz

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 240
  • Published: November 1, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Mustafa Sarkar

Dr. Sarkar is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the School of Science & Technology, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
Affiliations and expertise
Nottingham Trent University,UK

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Samuele Marcora

Dr. Marcora is currently at School of Sport and Exercise, Sciences,University of Kent, United Kingdom.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Kent, UK and Department of Biomedical and NeuroMotor Sciences (DiBiNeM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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