The author discusses the cognitive substrates of performance failures known in the sports world as "choking" but known to performers as "stage fright" by considering psychological research of the phenomenon dubbed "The Ironic Effect."
Keywords:
Automatic,
Automatic processing,
Brain,
Brain and singing,
Brain and voice,
Break a leg,
Choking,
Controlled,
Controlled processing,
Creative intuition,
Creativity,
Deliberate calm,
Fight or flight,
fMRI,
Holistic word cues,
Improvisation,
In bocca al lupo,
Information processing,
Inhibition,
Inhibition,
Ironic Effect,
Ironic processes,
Jazz,
Mental controls,
Mindful voice,
Nerves,
Neuroscience and singing,
Neuroscience and voice,
Panic,
Performance jitters,
Self-evaluation,
Self-expression,
Self-monitoring,
Sensory commands,
Stage fright,
Stress,
Verbal commands