The performance cortex how neuroscience is redefining athletic genius
"Athletic genius. All the sports journalists in the world can't explain it. Why was Michael Jordan so good? Was it just his joints and muscles? Did he just eat better breakfasts? Zach Schonbrun delivers a groundbreaking new perspective on the science of elite sporting performance. In the c...
| Main Author: | Schonbrun, Zach (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Dutton,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Decervo : "how can you think and hit at the same time?"
- The movement chauvinist : why we have a brain
- The motor hunter : why Stephen Curry is a genius
- "From mind to muscle" : how the motor cortex was found
- The neurotech space : out of the lab
- Searching for the motor engram : the intelligence in our skin
- Embodied expertise : watch and learn
- The body in space : how Tom Brady won Super Bowl LI
- A paralyzed man who moved : the future of movement.