Differences among Three Measures of Reaction Time Based on Hand Laterality in Individual Sports

Bădău, Dana; Baydil, Bilgehan; Bădău, Adela

doi:10.3390/sports6020045

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“…Reaction time is a term described as the time between the impulse and movement (Badau et al, 2018) and in athletics, it is defined as the signal of a start coordinator and the pressure that athletes apply on the starting block. Theoretically, if an athlete starts to move any time after the signal, the start is deemed valid.…”

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The Relationship Between Reaction Time and 60 m Performance in Elite Athletes

Gürses¹,

Kamiş²

2019

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between 60m sprint results and reaction times in athletes who took part in the World Indoor Athletics Championships. The reaction times and 60m sprint results were compiled for 483 sprinters (253 male, 230 female) who performed 60m sprint event. Corresponding data were obtained from archives of the official website of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF). The relationship between reaction time and 60m sprint results were calculated using Pearson correlation coefficient. Additionally, the Independent Samples T-Test was used to compare athletes’ reaction times and 60m sprint results. Positive moderate correlation was found between mean values of all 60m sprint results and reaction times, which were analyzed together in all categories (r=.436, p<0.01). Moreover, significant differences were also found between male and female finalists based on the 60m sprint times and reaction times respectively (t=-27.98, p<0.01; t=-3.26, p<0.01). As a result, it can be concluded that reaction time has great importance on 60 m performance. The best reaction time is related to the higher performance of 60m sprint in both male and female athletes. Moreover, this is also similar for round 1, semifinal and final categories. Coaches and athletes may consider improving reaction time to achieve better 60m performance.

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The Relationship Between Reaction Time and 60 m Performance in Elite Athletes

Gürses¹,

Kamiş²

2019

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“…We have found the median BasalRT to be 380.50 ms. The average BasalRT varies between 230-295 ms in the literature depending on the participant performing regular exercise, profession, gender and age (18)(19)(20)(21)(22). In this research, we have found that gender and age were insignificant in the BasalRT.…”

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Effects of Acute Physical Exercise and Acute Mental Exercise on Simple Visual Reaction Time

Kef¹,

Elibol²,

Şenyiğit³

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Aims: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of acute physical exercise and acute mental exercise on visual reaction time in healthy medical students. Methods: We used a simple reaction time task software developed by the researchers to measure the visual reaction times of the subjects. Reaction times of subjects as well as pulse rates were measured on three different occasions: basal (resting), post acute mental exercise and post acute physical exercise. The acute physical exercise was constructed to last for 5 minutes in a way that would double the basal pulse rate of the participant. The acute mental exercise was induced by five minutes of ADD-3 arithmetics. All volunteered physically healthy medical students from four different medical schools in Turkey without red-green color deficiencies were included in the study. Results: A total of 232 (136 male, 96 female) individuals with a mean age of 20.79 ± 1.42 were included in the study. Differences between basal reaction time and post-physical exercise reaction time; the basal reaction time and post-mental exercise reaction time were found to be statistically significant. Basal reaction time of participants was found to be the key element deriving both post-mental and physical exercise reaction times. Also, one unit increase in the number of ADD-3 problems solved was associated with 0.21 units decrease in post-mental exercise reaction time. Conclusion: Both acute mental exercise and acute physical exercise can shorten visual reaction time. Our results also indicate that there might be a relationship between arithmetic capability (ADD-3 arithmetics performance) and visual reaction time.

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“…However, the current study found similar results with one exception that is basketball players' target throws did not change as well as the non-target non-ironic error rates across anxiety conditions. More specifically, for aiming type of tasks such as basketball free throw, dart throwing, pistol shooting, a particular fixation termed the quiet eye (Vickers, 1996), defined as the final fixation to a target before the initiation of the motor response (Badau, Baydil, & Badau, 2018), can become less efficient while performer has to perform under pressure. Therefore, taking a deep breath and not to hurry could allow performers an extended duration of programming while minimizing distractive or unwanted thoughts.…”

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Counter-Intentional Errors of Basketball Free Throw Shooting Under Elevated Pressure: An Educational Approach of Task Instruction

Gorgulu¹

2019

JEL

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The aim of this experimental study was to test Wegner’s (1994) theory of ironic processes in a basketball free throw task under pressure. More specifically, Wegner (1994) predicts that when instructed not to perform in a certain manner performers’ performance will break down where it is least desired way which is the main hypothesis of the current study. More specifically, it was hypothesized that when basketball players were instructed “not to throw the ball’’ into the certain zone on the backboard would decrease their performance in ironic fashion especially under manipulated high-anxiety condition. The sample of the present study comprised 37 male (Mage=22.30, SD=2.89) experienced university basketball players. Participants’ anxiety was measured using MRF-3 (Krane, 1994). In a basketball free-throw task; the numbers of targets, non-target non-ironic balls and ironic error balls were counted and overall performance was also calculated in order to measure participants’ performance. Based on the scoring system, participants gained +5 points for throwing into the target, scored -5 points making an ironic error and 0 points for throwing the ball to anywhere (except the target and non-target ironic error zone) on the backboard. Results revealed that when instructed not to throw in a certain zone, performers’ overall performance changed in ironic fashion across anxiety conditions. Findings suggest that understanding the mechanism of ironic processes of mental control theory may be a useful theoretical framework for examining the relationship between anxiety and performance in sport, physical education and motor control studies.

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Differences among Three Measures of Reaction Time Based on Hand Laterality in Individual Sports

Cited by 60 publications

References 20 publications

The Relationship Between Reaction Time and 60 m Performance in Elite Athletes

The Relationship Between Reaction Time and 60 m Performance in Elite Athletes

Effects of Acute Physical Exercise and Acute Mental Exercise on Simple Visual Reaction Time

Counter-Intentional Errors of Basketball Free Throw Shooting Under Elevated Pressure: An Educational Approach of Task Instruction

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