Human brain can not deal with Robben
Wednesday, 7 July
2010
Even though the
opponent's brain knows that Arjen Robben is making a
feint, the body will automatically fall for it. The
part of the brain that makes the body move along with
Robben is a tat faster than the conscious knowledge
about Robben's movement.
"The player can
still correct is, but he will always be a fraction of
a second too late," says brain researcher Shanti
Ganesh of the Radboud University in the city of Nijmegen.
Research has also
shown that the brain of a football fan plays along more
actively with his own team than with the opponent, but
when it comes to penalties the brain makes no distinction
between his own team and the opponent.
The researchers let
Dutch and German football fans watch a (virtual) penalty
series between Holland and Germany.
Missed penalties were
registered as a mistake by the brain on both sides.
"We expected to see a sort of 'gloating' reaction
in the brain of a Dutch fan when Germany missed."
That wasn't the case.
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