Neurotechnology for Sport

With sports vision, you use specific drills to train the various skills placed on the visual system in sports. In this article, we will outline the most important sports vision drills with the highest payoff.  Sports vision is becoming more popular recently. With the extensive demands sport places on an athlete’s visual system, it only makes sense to train it. Improved sports vision can have a positive impact on an athlete’s performance and many athletes notice the benefits from training the visual system specifically.   Vision training can be a rabbit hole and it pays to have an understanding on what to train and how to train it. Walking into sports vision training without any knowledge can put an athlete at risk of over or underloading the system, thus negating the possible benefits. Much like walking into a gym with no knowledge of how to use the equipment or even which equipment to use.   However, sports vision does not have to be overwhelming. We have ...

Visual skills for Sports Sports vision training  helps an athlete improve their visual skills so they can process information faster, make more accurate decisions and see things without looking.  Smooth Pursuits Smooth pursuit movements are reflexive eye movements that are required when  an object through an environment. The eyes move smoothly instead of I  jump. Can your athlete accurately track an object while it is moving and at different speeds  without losing focus? This skill is very basic but many athletes lose focus and need  to re-fixate due to visual fatigue. Saccades A saccade is a quick, jerk-like, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two  or more points of fixation in the same direction. Switching your eyes quickly to a target is fairly straightforward forward but are you able to  do this at high speed and with accuracy? or does your athlete need to constantly re-fixate on the target? Are they over shooting or undershooting? The...

Sports Vision Training focuses on improving the visual skills of an athlete. If an athlete has a deficit or weakness in any visual skill, this will impact their physical performance. Sports Vision Training training focuses on improving the visual skills of an athlete. If an athlete has a deficit or weakness in any visual skill, this will impact their physical performance. Sports vision training helps an athlete improve their visual skills so they can process information faster, make more accurate decisions and see things without looking. An athletes sports vision training program must focus on the athletes' visual demands and ensure that any visual deficits are also addressed. We know that the brain makes decisions based on the information available to it.  However if  the information coming from the senses is not telling the full story, you are basing your movements and decisions on misinformation. In a sports setting that means mistakes are made, often when the stakes are ...

  Correct cognitive programming is essential to progress. Correct  cognitive  programming is essential to progress. Currently there is a huge gap between physical training and cognitive training in the high performance sports world. Physical training is carefully planned out and cognitive training is thrown into the mix like a little bit of spice added to your food to give it some extra flavour. Entertainment factor seems to be the driving factor rather than measureable gains. Cognitive training  is no differen t  than physical training in respects to having a structured plan and the same laws apply. You must do the groundwork in order to get results. Otherwise you will fall into the trap of just “Spicing” up the training plan, with no measurable results to back up what you are doing. In these unusual circumstances, many teams are looking at ways to cut costs. Many jobs are on the line. Those working in high performance are now being asked to review budgets and ...

  How mental fatigue affects visual sustained attention Sustaining visual attention for long periods can induce high levels of mental fatigue which  leads to decreased speed in information evaluating and decision making against the stimuli. Results also showed that, overall, error rates and reaction times increased with Time on Task (ToT). Researchers concluded that attention was affected by mental fatigue, in the form of a decrease in the ability to suppress irrelevant information . In behavioural results, this was reflected by a tendency of participants to increasingly base their response decision on irrelevant information, resulting in decreased response accuracies. Until now  t here was no affordable mobile solution for  eye tracking training  for teams, coaches and athletes. This is why we developed  Soma NPT Vision . This brings the latest  eye tracking technology  to your mobile device so you can train sports vision anytime anywhere without...