This Electroencephalography (EEG) study examined the generation of taskspecific selfefficacy, the confidence in one’s ability to perform a given task successfully, on a neural level. The...Show moreThis Electroencephalography (EEG) study examined the generation of taskspecific selfefficacy, the confidence in one’s ability to perform a given task successfully, on a neural level. The proposition was that selfefficacy shows in Mirror Neuron System (MNS) activity, which is indicated by suppression in the frequency range from 8 to 13 Hz, the muband. This musuppression was measured whilst participants (n = 6) watched prerecorded videos of themselves performing short, simple motor tasks in three different viewing conditions. The three viewing conditions were thought to induce different levels of selfefficacy. In two conditions, there was statistically significant musuppression compared to the reference viewing condition. Further, a new score to measure musuppression, the relative musuppression score rmu, was introduced. This rmu score could be used as a neurophysiological marker to reliably measure musuppression in clinical and nonclinical subjects. Then, this score was crosscorrelated with the state anxiety score of the StateTrait Anxiety Inventory. An inverse relationship as reported in previous studies could be seen. But, given the low variance in state anxiety scores and the small sample size, no statistically sound confirmation of said relationship could be made.Show less