#349 - The Science Behind Why We Choke Under Pressure
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - July 07, 2023 11:11 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Neuroscientists Steven Chase & Aaron Batista chat with Trey Elling about research they conducted on monkeys to learn why we struggle to learn under pressure. Topics include:
The genesis of this research (1:34)
How the monkeys were tested (2:23)
The monkeys’ ‘jackpot’ (3:35)
What the research found (4:41)
The activity in the monkeys’ brains (5:51)
The role of the motor cortex (7:41)
Examining rhesus macaques over bonobo chimps (9:46)
What led Steven and Aaron to studying the brain (11:37)
Defining ‘the mind’ (15:14)
Examples where Steven and Aaron failed AND succeeded under pressure (18:54)