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Vikram Chib

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

So if I boost up that reward a little bit, right, it might motivate me more to overcome some of that feeling of fatigue and do the task that I'm set out to do.

Short Wave
The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

Yeah, that's right.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

So like you would think about like a speed skater, right?

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

You see these people getting their Olympic records or gold medals, right?

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

You know, they've for four years, they do their World Cup events, you know, and they do OK.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

Right.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

Sometimes they they they break world records.

Short Wave
The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

But you see a lot of Olympic and world records broken in in the Olympics.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

Right.

Short Wave
The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

And so what one one way to think about that?

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

I mean, this is just speculative.

Short Wave
The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

Could could be that like, OK, that added that little added reward pushes them beyond, you

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

Well, we've sort of looked at that in terms of the heightened reward aspect of it as opposed to the fatigue aspect of it.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

So what we've done is we've kind of set up these like choking scenarios in the lab where we use incentive.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

And the incentive we've used is money.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

So we pay people like a lot of money.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

We tell them, okay, you're going to do a single trial like of a skilled motor task.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

Okay.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

essentially playing a video game.

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The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

And on certain trials, we're going to give you $100 to do this trial.