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

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.

Takes a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on aspects of psychology, neuroscience, skill learning, talent development and physiologyFocuses on sports and the brainContains the expertise of an international panel of contributorsAdopts 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

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