NEWS & NOTES · CURRENT SIGNALS

One core mission, moving through six forms of work.

Use sport cognitive neuroscience to identify the psychological state that supports skilled performance; practise regulation through individualised neurofeedback; then test whether it produces a meaningful difference in the athlete's own task.

Current work advances one core missionA fluctuating preparation state becomes measurable through EEG and HRV, trainable through neurofeedback, and testable in sport performance.CURRENT RESEARCH MISSION01PSYCHOLOGICAL STATEReadiness under pressure02EEG × HRVConverging evidence03NEUROFEEDBACKPractised regulation04SPORT PERFORMANCETransfer the athlete can feelMechanism-led schematic · transfer is tested in the athlete's own task
FIG. 01 · FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE TO SPORT PERFORMANCEDifferent forms of work advance the same mechanism, training, and transfer programme.Programme schematic; traces are not measured data and do not imply guaranteed performance gains.
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SIX CURRENT ADVANCES

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Two funded programmes move from mechanism to field transfer.

Current NSTC and TISS programmes test how EEG–HRV readiness can inform individualised neurofeedback and transfer in precision sport.

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Sport cognitive neuroscience enters professional coach education.

Live EEG made the path from psychological state to measurable signal and neurofeedback regulation tangible for practitioners.

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Precision-sport neurofeedback presented at FEPSAC 2026.

Archery SMR neurofeedback research examined how a trained neural response can return to a sport-specific action under pressure.

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Neurocognitive and autonomic signatures under motivational stress.

The study connects motivational stress with coordinated neurocognitive, autonomic, and performance changes before action.

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SPIN Lab opens the research process to public-sector dialogue.

A laboratory visit showed how EEG evidence is interpreted with the athlete's task before it can inform a performance decision.

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Sport and brain science enter the classroom.

Attention, brain rhythms, and skilled performance became an interactive public-science experience without overstating the evidence.

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CORE MISSION

Identify the state. Practise regulation. Test transfer.