Regardless of whether I was studying the complex decision-making processes involved in flying an airplane or how different parts of the brain work together to do math, my question about human performance was always the same: Why do we sometimes fail to perform at our best when it counts the most?
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Sian Beilock
A cognitive scientist who studies why people choke under pressure and how to fix it.