Changes in baseball batters’ brain activity with increased pitch choice
| Autor: | Woojong Kim, Kwangmin Ryu, Steven J. Radlo, Asif Ali, Jingu Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Brain activation medicine.medical_specialty Brain activity and meditation Decision Making Motion Perception Video Recording Audiology Stimulus (physiology) Baseball Young Adult Slider medicine Humans Simulation Brain Mapping General Neuroscience Brain General Medicine Right fusiform gyrus Psychophysiology Athletes Primary motor cortex Psychology Photic Stimulation Psychomotor Performance Throwing |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. 14:369-381 |
| ISSN: | 1757-448X 0219-6352 |
| DOI: | 10.1142/s0219635215500193 |
| Popis: | In baseball, one factor necessary for batters to decide whether to swing or not depends on what type of pitch is thrown. Oftentimes batters will look for their pitch (i.e., waiting for a fastball). In general, when a pitcher has many types of pitches in his arsenal, batters will have greater difficulty deciding upon the pitch thrown. Little research has been investigated the psychophysiology of a batters decision-making processes. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to determine how brain activation changes according to an increase in the number of alternatives (NA) available. A total of 15 male college baseball players participated in this study. The stimuli used in this experiment were video clips of a right-handed pitcher throwing fastball, curve, and slider pitches. The task was to press a button after selecting the fastball as the target stimulus from two pitch choices (fastball and curve), and then from three possibilities (fastball, curve, and slider). Functional and anatomic image scanning magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) runs took 4 and 5[Formula: see text]min, respectively. According to our analysis, the right precentral gyrus, left medial frontal gyrus, and right fusiform gyrus were activated when the NA was one. The supplementary motor areas (SMA) and primary motor cortex were activated when there were two alternatives to choose from and the inferior orbitofrontal gyrus was specifically activated with three alternatives. Contrary to our expectations, the NA was not a critical factor influencing the activation of related decision making areas when the NA was compared against one another. These findings highlight that specific brain areas related to decision making were activated as the NA increased. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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