Theories: distraction vs explicit monitoring vs over-arousal

1:13:45>> it's there for us to discuss and kind there's an interesting science angle here and so we're trying to like understand the neuroscience of this. This is not about oh my god I can't believe he failed or didn't fail. >> No. Yeah. No. We're going to we're going to be talking smack, but it's going to be later and it's not going to be about Ilia. [laughter] Don't you worry. This is an Olympics podcast. But, you know, Ilia is very young and he's going to be back. He So, he's going to be back in the next Olympics. And, you know, one of the things that we're going to uncover about the neuroscience of choking is the more experience you have, >> the better these pathways get to prevent you from doing that. That's why LeBron is still like incredible at like just

1:14:26shooting. Yes. >> Even under pressure, right? So let's get into some of the theoretical frameworks before we dive into the neuroscience. Okay, there's several theories behind why this happens. One is called the distraction theory. What it says is basically working memory which is like your memory of like events that are happening now and what you need to do in a in a while that has a finite capacity and it's flooded with task irrelevant stressors like there's fear about failing, there's the crowd, there's the cameras on you. Um and so you get this sort of loss of goal-directed control of attention. Okay, that's the distraction