https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/automaticity-cortical-control Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/automaticity-cortical-controlThree Korean MRI studies, between 2008 and 2014, compare archers and beginners as they simulate or imagine aiming, and all three find a more active brain in the beginners, mainly in the frontal areas: in the eight experts of 2008 the visual areas work and in the eight beginners the frontal ones, in the eighteen elite archers of 2010 almost only the supplementary motor area stays active while in those who have never competed a wide network lights up. The third study splits, though: between elite women archers with Olympic and world medals and university archers who had been shooting for twelve years, it is the elite women who activate the supplementary motor area and middle frontal cortex more. The only measurement that follows the same people as they learn dates from 2025: twenty-six freshmen on a seven-week course, with electroencephalography and electromyography while shooting thirty arrows at ten metres, show less flow of information from the prefrontal and central cortex to the muscles by the end, and a link with the score that flips (correlations from 0.09 to 0.27 before, from -0.10 to -0.36 after). The limits are the same throughout: comparisons made at a single moment, on small groups and on a simulated or imagined movement without a bow, and a before-and-after with no control group. Not even the authors always read the result the way the claim does: in 2025 they put the drop down to more inhibitory control from above, and in 2014 the elite use more cortex, not less. The direction holds for the first step, from not knowing the movement to being able to do it; among trained archers the only comparison points the opposite way, and for those who lose the movement there is nothing yet.claim:automatismo-controllo-corticale:revision:2026-06-03:3Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/automaticity-cortical-controlclaim:automatismo-controllo-corticale:new_claim:2026-04-22:contestatoWed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT