https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/brain-activity-aiming-best-arrows 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/brain-activity-aiming-best-arrowsThe question has to be asked arrow by arrow: within the same archer, does the brain work differently before a ten and before a seven? Comparisons made this way are few, and they do not point the same way. The largest, on twenty-eight elite archers in 1990, finds differences only in the left hemisphere, with more power at 6, 12 and 28 Hz in the last second before the worst arrows; a 2010 abstract on ten pre-elite archers looks specifically at left temporal and occipital alpha over the two seconds before release and finds it no different between the best and the worst arrows. The other two comparisons use single-channel consumer headbands and pool the arrows of different archers, so they mix differences between arrows with differences between people: in eight Croatian archers the indices change before the tens in compound but not in recurve, and in five young Turkish archers the arrows shot with higher attention and calm indices score more (r = 0.34 and 0.39). Even where a difference appears, its direction changes: in compound the calm index is lower before the tens, in the Turkish youngsters it is higher. Two other arrow-by-arrow comparisons appear in venues the registry marks as questionable, and the studies that compare archers with each other answer a different question, who shoots better rather than what comes before the good arrow. A 2024 review of the precision sports reaches a similar reading: only the sensorimotor rhythm shows a consistent link with performance, while left temporal alpha and frontal theta and alpha give results that do not repeat from one study to the next.claim:eeg-frecce-migliori:revision:2026-08-10:4Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/brain-activity-aiming-best-arrows#storiaThe third arrow-by-arrow comparison comes from eight experienced Croatian archers, four compound and four recurve, with a single-channel consumer EEG headband on the forehead and its attention and meditation indices. In compound the arrows do differ, though not in the expected direction: two seconds before the tens the meditation index is 43, against 64 before the eights and 57 before the nines, and attention is higher before the eights than before the nines and the tens, although there are only four eights. In recurve, by contrast, the indices during the aim do not change with the value of the arrow, and meditation separates only one second after the shot. The arrows of the four archers in each group are pooled, and the study counts once in favour and once against: the picture stays split, contested.claim:eeg-frecce-migliori:history_entry:2026-07-21:2015Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/mind/brain-activity-aiming-best-arrowsclaim:eeg-frecce-migliori:new_claim:2026-04-24:contestatoFri, 24 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT