Expertise-dependent differences in mental representation metrics of pas de bourrée.

Autor: Wittenbrink P; Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany., Janzen M; Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany., Jennert A; Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany., Strenge B; Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.; Neurocognition and Action - Biomechanics Research Group, Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Oct 05; Vol. 18 (10), pp. e0292133. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 05 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292133
Abstrakt: Precise movement control is of prime importance in almost every kind of sport and greatly influences an athlete's performance. In dancing not only motor but also cognitive skills, e.g. in the form of memorized representational structures, are essential components of the performance. This study investigated different metrics related to the long-term memory of ballet dancers with different skill levels regarding the pas de bourrée using the structural-dimensional analysis of mental representations (SDA-M) method. To this end, the Correct Action Selection Probability Analysis (CASPA) algorithm, a recent SDA-M extension that predicts the individual probabilities of correct action selections within a movement sequence, has been applied in the context of dancing for the first time. Significant positive correlations were found between participants' degree of expertise and the proximity of their mental representation structure to the ideal reference structure, as well as between the degree of expertise and the probability of correct action selection within the movement sequence estimated by CASPA. The results indicate that increased training experience in ballet dancing is not only associated with functionally better structured mental representations of the movement sequence but also with a higher probability of correct action selection. These findings provide further evidence for SDA-M with CASPA as an auspicious tool for individualized task-related memory assessments and diagnostics in different action sequences, e.g. as the basis for mental training.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Wittenbrink et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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