The discovery of slowness: Time to deconstruct Gretzky's and Messi's predictive brains. (8th August 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The discovery of slowness: Time to deconstruct Gretzky's and Messi's predictive brains. (8th August 2016)
- Main Title:
- The discovery of slowness: Time to deconstruct Gretzky's and Messi's predictive brains
- Authors:
- Erren, Thomas C.
Kuffer, Liz
Pinger, Andreas
Groß, J. Valérie - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Jafari and Smith hypothesized that time during games may pass slower for the world's best football player, Lionel Messi, from Argentina. This hypothesis leads to two questions: How can we explain such temporal paradox and how could this explain his dominant performances? Remarkably, the Argentinian's case was preceded by the equally astonishing case of Wayne Gretzky: The Canadian considered ice hockey as a rather slow game and was the best player in the sport's history. Whether Messi's and Gretzky's motor neurons fire faster, (inter)act differently or whether other mechanisms are at (inter)play warrants targeted research. A further explanation for such dominance of football and ice hockey, respectively, could be that both athletes "buy time": To this end, automized motor skills may allow their predictive brains to make better use of time than other players to read the games and plan ahead. Deconstructing predictive minds of outperforming individuals like Gretzky and Messi could provide unique options to elucidate how differential time perception may make performances in athletes, and beyond, more swift and more efficient.
- Is Part Of:
- Chronobiology international. Volume 33:Number 7(2016)
- Journal:
- Chronobiology international
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Number 7(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 7 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 7
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0033-0007-0000
- Page Start:
- 789
- Page End:
- 790
- Publication Date:
- 2016-08-08
- Subjects:
- time perception -- Wayne Gretzky -- Lionel Messi -- discovery of slowness -- predictive brain
Chronobiology -- Periodicals
Biological rhythms -- Periodicals
Circadian rhythms -- Periodicals
571.77 - Journal URLs:
- http://informahealthcare.com ↗
http://informahealthcare.com/loi/cbi ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/07420528.2016.1178276 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0742-0528
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