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Hello
This is six minute english from bbc learning english
I'm georgie and i'm neil
Neil
I'm not a huge fan of football
But i know you are so
Why do you love it so much
Oh
Where can i start
I think it's the combination of the passion
And also the skill and athleticism of the players
Um they call it the beautiful game for a reason
Now football players are faster than ever before
But the game is also about making very quick decisions
Yes to be the best of the best
Some football clubs have started
Looking beyond the body to the brain
His tom cook academy psychologists for nssgan forest football club talking to the bbc world service
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We're watching these athletes make decisions in split instincts under the highest pressures and highghst intensities
It made a lot of sense to go or neurologicor or cognitively
There's something going on
There's something going on
In the
In in in the athletes are making quick decisions
So there's something going on
Something unknown in interesting is happening
So what's happening inside the brains of football players
And could brain training help win more games
But what we will be hearing about in this program
And don't forget to find a free transcript so baby and learning english dot com
But first neil
I have a question for you
As we've heard football players have to make decisions in high pressure situations and their performance may be influences by their emotional state unfair response
But which part of the brain is best known for its role in processing fear and detecting threats
Theis a the brainstestebe be the mydallar
Or
Or see the cerellm
Well well
I don't know
But i'm going to guess be the ammcdeler
Because i like the sound of the word
Okay Well
I'll reveal the answer later in the program in twenty fourteen
A group of japanese scientists studied the brain of brazilian football star naamor
They found that his brain was a lot less active than his brains of his piers
When he rotated his right ankle
Here's hollybridge professor of neuroscience at the university of opert
Talking about this research to the bbc world service
That reducction neactiviity nanaamor's cortex reflects that he has absolute expertise in moving his feet
And it essentially done with very very little conscious effort
Holly said
Namer has absolute expertise in moving his feet
Expertise means a high level of skill or knowledge
Gained with experience
Namama's expertise is shown without much conscious effort
Conscious describes something done with awareness not by accident
That if namaor kicks the ball without much conscious effort
He plays without thinking too much decades
After this research football clubs are becoming more interested in brain data technology
Even exploring whether a player's brain can be trained his tom cook academy psychologists for noscuan forest football club
What we're doing is trying to design sessions
But with cognition and or euroscience at the centre of it
So it could be something like they're not ging storing ing loof information tion
So would trying to overwhelm them in a safe environment
Like training
That's the where the development improvement can happen to hopefully effect
When they go out into games or cup competitions
Training can help players deal with the pressures of the game
His holleybridge again talking about how emotions can affect a players game
A lot of performance is also driven by your emotional state
And that is something you can learn to control how well a player performs is driven by their emotional state
Here driven by means influenby or push forward by holly says
That too many emotions can lead to a lack of precision and focus in a football match high precious scenarios like penalties corners and free kicks offer rare moments of stelness
He is nicholas scsellfounder and ceo of neurroeleven talking to the bbc world servservice
He measures players
Brain waves before these important icks and teaches them how to stay relaxed
If you don't focus right in those moments
And let's say a mentally you're all over the place
Then it becomes more difficult to to have an accurate corner and to try to win the game
And when we talk about margins those of the little margins that can make all the difference
If you're mentally all over the place
It's more difficult to kickthe able accurately
When we describe something as all over the place
We mean that it's chaotic disorgized or confused
Nicholas said that small margins can make all the difference to a game
Yes
A margin is a measure of difference
Yes
We're talking about small details that can affect a player's perforance
Ance or outcome of a match
Now speaking of how emotions can affect performance
I think it's time for the answer to your quiz question
George Yes
I asked you
Which part of the brain is best known for its role in processing fear
And i guess sed be a micdaller
Which was the correct answer well done the amydallar is asceswith our processing of fear and anxiety
Again time for a vocabulary recap nicklly
So how interesting or important is happening
Expertise is specialized knowledge or confused game through study or experience
Conscious means in active thouthouthought or tentenif something something is driven by something
It influluence by it pupushed forward by it all over the place describes a situation or mental state
Which is diorganized k otic or confused and finally a margin is a measure of difference
Small details is can affect ct outcome once ce are six minutes aarp
But confumber
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