NFC’s efficacy in changing trainees’ brain has been investigated via objective EEG measurements.
The statistically significant, neuroscientific results showed that training through NFC for 20 days, strengthens the functioning of the 2 areas of the brain, directly related to visual-spatial processing and memory: the Hippocampus and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex.
Brain’s GPS: Hippocampus is responsible for identifying, processing and remembering the position of a stimulus in relation to its environment. If a route is blocked, this mental GPS recalculates alternative paths. This is what we we call visuo-spatial processing and memory.
The buffer: Anterior Cingulate Cortex is responsible to maintain brain’s processing result active, so that it is later compared with a different result. It is also responsible for identifying conflict and errors in the incoming stimuli.
Reference: Stamkopoulos, E., Antoniou, P., Dimitriadis, M., Sidiropoulos, E., Bamidis, P., Paraskevopoulos, E., Neuroplastic effects of a gamified VR based Multiple Object Tracking application. Talk at the Panhellenic conference of biomedical technology. Thessaloniki, 09-11 September 2021.
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The cognitive skill that supports a soccer player's game is called Multiple-Object Tracking (MOT).
Statistical learning of movement transitions further augments NFC's learning outcome.
It is a concept known in the field of cognitive neuroscience for decades: it refers to the athlete's ability to keep sustained attention to multiple moving stimuli, and through system knowledge to effectively predict their next move. The more moving stimuli the athlete can track and anticipate, the more he "sees the field", coordinates with his team, but also frees himself from marking. The established training and evaluation protocols ensure validity
Another cognitive skill known as Statistical Learning allows you to extract the movements’ transitional patterns from the presented passing networks and thus, be able not only to track the movements, but also predict them.
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