The science behind improving your reaction times (PT. 2)

This is part 2 of our series on reaction times and reflexes. In part 1, we learned the foundational neuroscience to understand how your body responds to external stimuli. In this video, we explore how to implement this knowledge to improve our reaction times.

SOURCES:

VIDEOS:

Synaptec demo video with Jarvis Landry:

https://senaptec.com/products/senaptec-strobe

IMAGES:

Brodmann’s photo:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korbinian_Brodmann.gif

Korbinian Brodmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Brodmann’s drawing of the brain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brodmann_Cytoarchitectonics.PNG

Korbinian Brodmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Vision pathway to occipital lobe:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_visual_pathway.svg

Miquel Perello Nieto, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Thalamus GIF: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thalamus_small.gif

Images are generated by Life Science Databases(LSDB)., CC BY-SA 2.1 JP <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.1/jp/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons

Brain models generated in BodyParts3D/Anatomography

BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Main study that I describe in part 2:

“Independence of Movement Preparation and Movement Initiation” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601759/

Paper from same lab a year later:

“Reaction times can reflect habits rather than computations”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582865/

“Reaction Time Improvements by Neural Bistability”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466602/

“Speeding Up Reaction Time with Invisible Stimuli”

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(02)00688-7?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982202006887%3Fshowall%3Dtrue