Vikram Chib

Yeah.

So essentially, it's like a reframing, right?

So your brain is reframing that incentive, and that reframing can get you to do poorly.

Now, we've also found that if you train yourself to reframe the task in a different way and say to yourself, okay, I'm going to go into this trial, and I'm not going to think about this individual trial.

I'm going to think about the portfolio of all the trials I have to do.

So like,

For example, the portfolio of all the races I have to skate.

If you do that, you don't focus on that loss as much and you see less brain activity associated with

this fear of losing, and you tend to do better under pressure.

So cognitive reframing can sort of get you to overcome that choking behavior, or at least we've seen that in the lab.

Yeah, so you can think of the reward areas.

So ventral striatum, nucleus accumbens, prefrontal cortex, those areas...

respond to reward.

So the brain sort of activates when the rewards are very high.

You can also think about the motor areas if we're thinking about Olympic sport.

So, you know, motor cortex is an area that's responsible for coordinating your arm movements and your leg movements or the cerebellum.

That's another motor area.

But you can also think about sort of cognitive areas because some of these

events are very you know cognitively taxing for example like you see people doing curling right you know there's a lot of strategy and mental effort into saying like how do i place this rock in the right place right and so you can even think about working memory areas or prefrontal cortex again that not only does reward but does sort of higher order cognitive function yeah

Yeah.