Impact of Practice on Cognitive Workload
Practice essentially allows us to reduce cognitive workload and increase our attention reserve.
Neural Refinement
If you're learning how to play golf and you're not an expert yet, you have to go through the stages of motor learning to get to this neural refinement. It doesn't just happen with a couple of practices.
Consolidating Practice Through Sleep
If you want to refine your neural mechanisms as you're learning and making your way to expert status, you have to take care of your brain before, during, and after practice. Sleep and appropriate rest are essential for you to consolidate all of this practice that you're doing.
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1:26 — Professional Background
2:55 — Paper #1 Discussion - Neurofeedback Training
21:31 — Paper #2 Discussion - Neural Efficiency
27:44 — Pressure Training
39:43 — Trends and Limitations of Neurofeedback
43:42 — Paper #3 Discussion - Neurofeedback Training
47:13 — Paper #4 Discussion - Cognitive Workload & Neural Efficiency
49:25 — Recommendations For Coaches and Players
51:26 — What’s Something You’ve Changed Your Mind About Over Your Career?
53:56 — Book Recommendations
55:05 — Current Projects
Resources
Book Recommendation #1: Harry Potter
Book Recommendation #2: Human Performance
Book Recommendation #3: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Book Recommendation #4: Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
Book Recommendation #5: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Paper #2: The Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience of Superior Athletic Performance
Paper #3: The Effect of Left Temporal EEG Neurofeedback Training on Cerebral Cortical Activity and Precision Cognitive-Motor Performance
Paper #4: Effect of cognitive workload on momentum and neural efficiency in a golf putting task
About Kiersten Janjigian
Kiersten is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant and professor of Sport Psychology at George Washington University. While she works with both high-performance clients and students, she is also completing her doctorate at the University of Maryland College Park pursuing a degree in Kinesiology with a specialization in Cognitive Motor Neuroscience. Her research primarily focuses on the psychophysiological investigation of applied sport psychology, along with the study of diagnosis and treatment of sport-related concussion. She seeks to explore the neural correlates of mental imagery and other psychological skills training tools to implement in neurofeedback and hopes to create a unique neuroelectric assessment of stress en route to enhanced athletic performance.
Neurofeedback & Motor Learning w/ Kiersten Janjigian