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The Performance Cortex - How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius (Paperback)
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The Performance Cortex - How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius (Paperback)
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Why couldn't Michael Jordan, master athlete that he was, hit a
baseball? Why can't modern robotics come close to replicating the
dexterity of a five-year-old? Why do good quarterbacks always seem
to know where their receivers are? In this deeply researched book,
Sports and Business reporter Zach Schonbrun explores what actually
drives human movement and its spectacular potential. The
groundbreaking work of two neuroscientists in Major League Baseball
is only the beginning. Schonbrun traces the fascinating history of
motor research and details how new investigations in the brain are
helping explain the extraordinary skills of talented performers
like Stephen Curry, Tom Brady, Serena Williams, and Lionel Messi;
as well as musical virtuosos, dancers, rock climbers, race-car
drivers, and more. Whether it is timing a 95-mph fastball or
reaching for a coffee mug, movement requires extraordinary
computation that many take for granted - until now. The Performance
Cortex ushers in a new way of thinking about the athletic gifts we
strain to see in our cavernous arenas. It's not about the
million-dollar arm anymore. It's about the million-dollar brain.
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