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Mental skills of esports experts revealed by brain measurementThe relationship between frontal neural oscillation and performance 
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In esports, where the outcome is less dependent on physical factors, the importance of mental preparation for the match is considered to be significant. In particular, skilled esports players have superior strategic decision to optimize their behavioral patterns according to their opponents, and emotional control to stay calm under pressure at a critical phase. However, it is not known how the aforementioned abilities affect the outcome of a match. Through EEG measurements during a match and post-match questionnaires, we found that strategic decision is important at the beginning of the match and emotional control is important at the end of the match. In addition, neural oscillations in relation to strategic decision and emotional control were observed at the frontal brain region. By applying these findings, we aim to establish a new training method to bring the mental state of esports players closer to the ideal state for matches.
[1] S. Minami, K. Watanabe, N. Saijo, M. Kashino, “Amplitude of neural oscillations in the parietal area is associated with the results of esports competitions,” in Proc. IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2021 (in press).
Sorato Minami / Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory
Email: cs-openhouse-ml@hco.ntt.co.jp