Improving athletic performance
Résumé
Athletes constantly aim at optimising their performance and, to do so, look for innovative, efficient and reliable training approaches. The development of neurotechnologies, and particularly of BCIs, provides the opportunity to create innovative neurofeedbackbased cognitive training procedures. The latter could, for the first time, enable athletes to be provided with objective feedback during mental training sessions. This neuro-feedback (NF) can be used to assess performance and progress, guide the athlete to identify the best strategies in light of their objectives, and also to motivate them to engage in the mental training sessions. In this chapter, we first introduce the rationale of using NF for improving sports performance and describe specific contexts in which it is relevant (e.g., motor imagery to improve movement quality). In a second section, we provide an overview of the literature showing the heterogeneity of the studies published on the topic so far, which enables us then to identify some lessons learned from the literature (section 3) as well as scientific challenges to be taken up to democratise NF for sports (section 4). Finally, we conclude by providing a summary of the promises, difficulties and prospects in the field.
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