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The power of suggestion?
According to Patric Bach and Steven Tipper of Bangor University, the mere sight of Wayne Rooney [a soccer player] inhibits the control you have over your feet. Apparently, looking at Rooney automatically triggers football-related activity in the movement control parts of your brain, leading to the paradoxical effect of impairing your own foot control. By contrast, Bach and Tipper found the sight of the British tennis player Tim Henman impairs observers’ hand control, but not their foot control.
Here is the full story.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on November 23, 2006 at 06:07 AM in Science | Permalink
Comments
Does this mean that Tim Henman has bad or slow footwork?
Posted by: EclectEcon at Nov 23, 2006 10:28:38 AM
Great EA Sports commercial mocking its competitors.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wrw0-Gw2EK4
Posted by: david at Nov 23, 2006 5:42:19 PM
In related research, the mere sight of porn stars ...
Posted by: TomHynes at Nov 23, 2006 7:52:01 PM
...suggesting a dominant individual has the ability to simulate randomness in our neural net. Much like when a prof explains something new or too complex to one of his / her students >>>---> What represents order in one person's mind is efffectively random in another, and takes some time to reason through. Very interesting. Thanks for the link.
Posted by: NoNameNoSlogan at Nov 27, 2006 1:12:50 PM
