Experts in fast-ball sports reduce anticipation timing cost by developing inhibitory control

Nakamoto, Hiroki; Mori, Susumu

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2012.04.004

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“…In addition, response locked (Figure S6) and post-hoc analyses (Figure S7–Figure S10) confirm that the single-trial results are not confounded by behavioral differences in responses times. With these results, we confirm previous findings that the stronger frontal inhibitory components may contribute to the experts’ faster reaction times (Nakamoto and Mori, 2008, 2012; Nakata et al, 2012). …”

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“…Additionally, basing their findings on previous work linking No-Go frontal P300 strength to response inhibition, they found greater P300 amplitudes in baseball players when the SRC was similar to baseball batting. More recently, the same group showed that baseball players, performing a Go/No-Go task in which the subjects needed to coincide their response to the arrival of a moving object, had larger amplitude N2s and P300s compared to controls (Nakamoto and Mori, 2012). …”

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Knowing when not to swing: EEG evidence that enhanced perception–action coupling underlies baseball batter expertise

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Given a decision that requires less than half a second for evaluating the characteristics of the incoming pitch and generating a motor response, hitting a baseball potentially requires unique perception-action coupling to achieve high performance. We designed a rapid perceptual decision making experiment modeled as a Go/No-Go task, yet tailored to reflect a real scenario confronted by a baseball hitter. For groups of experts (Division I baseball players) and novices (non-players) we recorded electroencephalography (EEG) while they performed the task. We analyzed evoked EEG single-trial variability, contingent negative variation (CNV), and pre-stimulus alpha power with respect to the expert vs. novice groups. We found strong evidence for differences in inhibitory processes between the two groups, specifically differential activity in supplementary motor areas (SMA), indicative of enhanced inhibitory control in the expert (baseball player) group. We also found selective activity in the fusiform gyrus (FG) and orbital gyrus in the expert group, suggesting an enhanced perception-action coupling in baseball players that differentiates them from matched controls. In sum, our results show that EEG correlates of decision formation can be used to identify neural markers of high-performance athletes.

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2015

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“…This result was supported by the previous findings that athletes exhibited faster than non-athletes during reaction time tasks, and the faster responses stimulus discrimination and response selection ability possibly due to athletes’ enhanced attention and inhibitory control ability (Hung et al, 2004; Di Russo et al, 2006; Nakamoto and Mori, 2008, 2012; Muraskin et al, 2015). …”

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“Neural Efficiency” of Athletes’ Brain during Visuo-Spatial Task: An fMRI Study on Table Tennis Players

Guo

2017

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Long-term training leads experts to develop a focused and efficient organization of task-related neural networks. “Neural efficiency” hypothesis posits that neural activity is reduced in experts. Here we tested the following working hypotheses: compared to non-athletes, athletes showed lower cortical activation in task-sensitive brain areas during the processing of sports related and sports unrelated visuo-spatial tasks. To address this issue, cortical activation was examined with fMRI in 14 table tennis athletes and 14 non-athletes while performing the visuo-spatial tasks. Behavioral results showed that athletes reacted faster than non-athletes during both types of the tasks, and no accuracy difference was found between athletes and non-athletes. fMRI data showed that, athletes exhibited less brain activation than non-athletes in the bilateral middle frontal gyrus, right middle orbitofrontal area, right supplementary motor area, right paracentral lobule, right precuneus, left supramarginal gyrus, right angular gyrus, left inferior temporal gyrus, left middle temporal gyrus, bilateral lingual gyrus and left cerebellum crus. No region was significantly more activated in the athletes than in the non-athletes. These findings possibly suggest that long-standing training prompt athletes develop a focused and efficient organization of task-related neural networks, as a possible index of “neural efficiency” in athletes engaged in visuo-spatial tasks, and this functional reorganization is possibly task-specific.

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“…This may be the result of shorter visuomotor delay and efficient reprogramming of motor responses within limited time periods (Nakamoto and Mori 2012). According to Knyazev, functional delta oscillations appear to be implicated in the synchronization of brain activity with autonomic functions and in cognitive processes related to attention and the detection of motivationally salient stimuli in the environment (Knyazev 2012).…”

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Brain electrical activities of dancers and fast ball sports athletes are different

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Exercise training has been shown not only to influence physical fitness positively but also cognition in healthy and impaired populations. However, some particular exercise types, even though comparable based on physical efforts, have distinct cognitive and sensorimotor features. In this study, the effects of different types of exercise, such as fast ball sports and dance training, on brain electrical activity were investigated. Electroencephalography (EEG) scans were recorded in professional dancer, professional fast ball sports athlete (FBSA) and healthy control volunteer groups consisting of twelve subjects each. In FBSA, power of delta and theta frequency activities of EEG was significantly higher than those of the dancers and the controls. Conversely, dancers had significantly higher amplitudes in alpha and beta bands compared to FBSA and significantly higher amplitudes in the alpha band in comparison with controls. The results suggest that cognitive features of physical training can be reflected in resting brain electrical oscillations. The differences in resting brain electrical oscillations between the dancers and the FBSA can be the result of innate network differences determining the talents and/or plastic changes induced by physical training.

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Experts in fast-ball sports reduce anticipation timing cost by developing inhibitory control

Cited by 54 publications

References 72 publications

Knowing when not to swing: EEG evidence that enhanced perception–action coupling underlies baseball batter expertise

Knowing when not to swing: EEG evidence that enhanced perception–action coupling underlies baseball batter expertise

“Neural Efficiency” of Athletes’ Brain during Visuo-Spatial Task: An fMRI Study on Table Tennis Players

Brain electrical activities of dancers and fast ball sports athletes are different

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