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Few more informations about that paper. Many tests were performed, with many Italian top shooters (not just one top shooter, as said in that paper), during 6 or 7 years. One of the specific intents was to study (with the aid of those instruments) the moment when the optimal "automatic" (sub-conscious?) shooting performance becomes "non-automatic" (non sub-conscious?), and to study the possibility, or the very conditions, to recover the "automatic" (optimal) shooting as soon as possible. Of course shooters provided specific feedbacks and self-evaluations (about the optimality or sub-optimality of their performances). No strategy (effective in general, for *every* shooter, and at *any* time) has been found (as far as I could understand). s.Ricardo wrote:It's interesting that of the shots classified as "automatic", the majority were "suboptimal", while "controlled" shots were more successful overall. If I read this correctly, the "controlled" aspect of these shots was paying attention to the sights, while triggering was "automatic". The paper doesn't address whether the shots broke consciously or not. I suspect not, because attention was on the sights. For non-neuroscientists, it seems to reinforce things we've been saying all along. I think the EKGs reveal more to people who know how to read them. Anyone out there?