Actors can aid their preparation by using brain training (Image: Alastair Muir/Rex)
SOME actors go to extreme lengths to prepare for a role: Daniel Day-Lewis spent months in a wheelchair to get into character for . But if that sounds too much like hard work, actors can now use brain training to prepare instead.
and colleagues at Goldsmiths, University of London, have used neurofeedback training to improve actors’ performance.
In training, each actor watched a simulation of a theatre auditorium, as if on stage, while wearing electrodes on their scalp. The lights and sounds of…
