Performance enhancement: Superhuman athletes

Superhuman Strength in Cancer

Preliminary Evidence of Superhuman Tetrachromats

The human eye can normally resolve millions of colours, though we use only three colour sensors. This three-dimensional colour vision system is unique to humans and Old-world primates, and is known as trichromacy (3-colour). Elsewhere in the animal kingdom, other types of colour vision abound. Insects exhibit some of the more impressive systems: bees are tetrachromats (4-colour) and can see mor...

Whole-body cryotherapy's enhancement of acute recovery of running performance in well-trained athletes.

PURPOSE To examine the effects of a whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) protocol (3 min at -110°C) on acute recovery and key variables of endurance performance during high-intensity intermittent exercise in a thermoneutral environment. METHODS Eleven endurance athletes were tested twice in a randomized crossover design in which 5×5 min of high-intensity running (HIR) were followed by 1 h of passive ...

Evaluation of Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE): A New Approach to Promote Flow in Athletes

The construct of mindfulness appears to be compatible with theories of flow and peak performance in sport. The present study assessed how Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement (MSPE), a new 4-week program, affected flow states, performance, and psychological characteristics of 11 archers and 21 golfers from the community. Participants completed trait measures of anxiety, perfectionism, thought ...

Superhuman Accuracy on the SNEMI3D Connectomics Challenge

For the past decade, convolutional networks have been used for 3D reconstruction of neurons from electron microscopic (EM) brain images. Recent years have seen great improvements in accuracy, as evidenced by submissions to the SNEMI3D benchmark challenge. Here we report the first submission to surpass the estimate of human accuracy provided by the SNEMI3D leaderboard. A variant of 3D UNet is tr...