Differences in expertise level for anticipatory skill between badminton ‘in game’ strokes and serves

Robertson-Martens, Kamasha; Waelle, Silke De; Deconinck, Frederik; Lenoir, Matthieu

doi:10.1177/17479541211046910

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“…In particular, temporal occlusion has been used to study the quality and the accuracy of decisions made by athletes and, likewise, to examine how these aspects are influenced by various covariates, such as age, the relative age effect, or competence, as well as acute factors such as fatigue [3]. Comparisons between experienced and non-experienced players have shown that the experts' superior skills allow them to make accurate decisions faster than their non-experienced counterparts [23][24][25][26]. The higher performance of expert athletes depends primarily on the internal mental representations and cognitive processes that mediate the interpretation of a stimulus and the selection of an appropriate response [3].…”

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Situational Analysis and Tactical Decision-Making in Elite Handball Players

et al. 2023

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Situational analysis and decision-making represent key elements of elite sports performances, but few studies have investigated which player’s skills related to these aspects are relevant in elite handballers. The aim of this study was to address differences among handballers belonging to two tiers in processing situational probabilities information related to offensive and defensive situations. A total of 38 handballers (male = 22, female = 16, age: 25.6 ± 6.5 years, first-tier = 11, second-tier = 27) saw videos about different offensive and defensive actions. According to the temporal occlusion paradigm, each handballer provided a response about the best action a selected player had to perform according to the game’s context. The time, accuracy, and technical correctness of each player’s response were assessed. MANOVA revealed moderate-to-high skills differences between first- and second-tier players. First-tier players provided higher scores in response time and accuracy; they also obtained higher technical correctness scores in the most complex situation. The members of the first tier seemed to mainly depend on the accuracy of responses, even if the technical correctness also resulted in a predictor in the most complex situation. Playing in the best tier seems to require the development of very good skills related to processing situational probability information; therefore, training these elements seems to be necessary for determining the differences among elite handballers.

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Situational Analysis and Tactical Decision-Making in Elite Handball Players

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Brain mechanisms discriminating enactive mental simulations of running and plogging

Philips,

Baeken,

Billieux

et al. 2024

Human Brain Mapping

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Enactive cognition emphasizes co‐constructive roles of humans and their environment in shaping cognitive processes. It is specifically engaged in the mental simulation of behaviors, enhancing the connection between perception and action. Here we investigated the core network of brain regions involved in enactive cognition as applied to mental simulations of physical exercise. We used a neuroimaging paradigm in which participants (N = 103) were required to project themselves running or plogging (running while picking‐up litter) along an image‐guided naturalistic trail. Using both univariate and multivariate brain imaging analyses, we find that a broad spectrum of brain activation discriminates between the mental simulation of plogging versus running. Critically, we show that self‐reported ratings of daily life running engagement and the quality of mental simulation (how well participants were able to imagine themselves running) modulate the brain reactivity to plogging versus running. Finally, we undertook functional connectivity analyses centered on the insular cortex, which is a key region in the dynamic interplay between neurocognitive processes. This analysis revealed increased positive and negative patterns of insular‐centered functional connectivity in the plogging condition (as compared to the running condition), thereby confirming the key role of the insular cortex in action simulation involving complex sets of mental mechanisms. Taken together, the present findings provide new insights into the brain networks involved in the enactive mental simulation of physical exercise.

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Mechanisms of Action Anticipation in Table Tennis Players: A Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Study

Ji,

Liu,

et al. 2024

Neuroscience

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Differences in expertise level for anticipatory skill between badminton ‘in game’ strokes and serves

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Situational Analysis and Tactical Decision-Making in Elite Handball Players

Situational Analysis and Tactical Decision-Making in Elite Handball Players

Brain mechanisms discriminating enactive mental simulations of running and plogging

Mechanisms of Action Anticipation in Table Tennis Players: A Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Study

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