{"id":11522,"date":"2018-05-10T09:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fescenter.org\/?p=11522"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:06:36","slug":"the-performance-cortex-how-neuroscience-is-redefining-athletic-genius-by-zach-schonbrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/2018\/05\/10\/the-performance-cortex-how-neuroscience-is-redefining-athletic-genius-by-zach-schonbrun\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius&#8221; by Zach Schonbrun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BrainGate2 research by Bolu Ajiboye, PhD and Robert Kirsch, PhD is prominently featured in chapter nine of the recently published book,&nbsp;<em>The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius&nbsp;<\/em>by Zach Schonbrun.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is timing a 95 mph fastball or reaching for a coffee mug, movement requires a complex suite of computations that many take for granted &#8212; until they read&nbsp;<em>The Performance Cortex<\/em>. Zach Schonbrun ushers in a new way of thinking about the athletic gifts we marvel over and seek to develop in our own lives.&nbsp;It&#8217;s not about the million-dollar arm anymore. It&#8217;s about the million-dollar brain.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available for purchase&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Performance-Cortex-Neuroscience-Redefining-Athletic\/dp\/1101986336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cA must-read for the cerebral sports fan\u2026<br \/>\nlike&nbsp;<em>Moneyball&nbsp;<\/em>except nerdier. Much nerdier.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>&#8211;Sports Illustrated<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BrainGate2 research by Bolu Ajiboye, PhD and Robert Kirsch, PhD is prominently featured in chapter nine of the recently published book,&nbsp;The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience Is Redefining Athletic Genius&nbsp;by Zach Schonbrun. Whether it is timing a 95 mph fastball or reaching for a coffee mug, movement requires a complex suite of computations that many take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neural-interface","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28233,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions\/28233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}