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Head in the Game: The Mental Engineering of the World's Greatest Athletes

By : Brandon Sneed

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Book Synopsis :

An intriguing blend of science and sports that explores how some of the worlds greatest athletes are utilizing the last frontier of performance-enhancing technology?the mental mapping and engineering of their own brains?for peak performance, and what it means for the future of athleticism, sports, and the rest of us.Moneyball showed how statistics were revolutionizing baseball. The Sports Gene revealed the role genetics play in sports. Now, Head in the Game examines the next evolution: how mental engineering?the manipulation of the cognitive processes of the brain?can make gifted athletes even better.For years, technology?from EEG (electroencephalogram) to fMRI (Functional magnetic resonance imaging) to video games, tablets, and personal data collection devices?have been used with soldiers to understand their physical and mental functioning. Touching on brain functionality vital to sports?both the "hard" (coordination, stimuli processing, functional memory, decision-making,

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Author : Brandon Sneed

Pages : 384 pages

Publisher : Dey Street Books

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ISBN-10 : 006245594X

ISBN-13 : 9780062455949

 

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