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Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Publications

• Research Article   
  Can ERPs and Neural Oscillations Be Used to Differentiate Skilled and Unskilled Player Performance in an Ecologically Valid Sporting Model?
  Author(s): Mike Winstanley* and Barry Drust
  
  This study aimed to identify neural correlates of high performance in ecological valid, sporting tasks and quantify the differences between high skilled and low skilled players. To do this, Esports was chosen to be the sporting model to facilitate clean brain activity recordings whilst playing sport, something that is considerably more challenging with traditional sports. Participants were first separated into a skilled or unskilled group based on their Esports performance using objective classification measures to identify the presence of a higher and lower performing groups. Their brain activity was then recorded as they completed a visuomotor psychophysics task and Esports aimtraining tasks. The first task required discrete movements, the second sequential movements. Results indicated that there are several key differences in the brain activity of skilled players that facilitate a .. View More»
  

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