Sensorimotor Skills Impact on Temporal Expectation: Evidence from Swimmers
| Autor: | Laura Strassera, Ambra Bisio, Marco Bove, Monica Biggio, Emanuela Faelli, Laura Avanzino, Piero Ruggeri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Psychology (all) lcsh:BF1-990 050105 experimental psychology temporal expectation Sensorimotor skills Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation sensorimotor skills timing medicine Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences swimming General Psychology Original Research Communication business.industry 05 social sciences Significant difference Control subjects Interval (music) lcsh:Psychology temporal occlusion Action (philosophy) Time course Sport Swimming Temporal expectation Temporal occlusion Timing Motor action sport business human activities 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 8 (2017) Frontiers in Psychology |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01714 |
| Popis: | Aim of this study was to assess whether the ability to predict the temporal outcome of a sport action was influenced by the sensorimotor skills previously acquired during a specific sport training. Four groups, each of 30 subjects, were enrolled in this study; subjects of three groups practiced different sports disciplines (i.e., swimming, rhythmic gymnastics, and water polo) at competitive level whilst the fourth group consisted of control subjects. Subjects were asked to observe a video showing a swimmer doing two laps in crawl style. This video was shown 36 times, and was occluded after variable intervals, randomized across trials, by a dark window that started 3, 6, and 12 s before the swimmer touched the poolside. During the occluded interval, subjects were asked to indicate when the swimmer touched the edge of the pool by clicking on any button of the laptop keyboard. We found that swimmers were more accurate than subjects performing other sports in temporally predicting the final outcome of the swimming task. Particularly, we observed a significant difference in absolute timing error that was lower in swimmers compared to other groups when they were asked to make a temporal prediction with the occluded interval of short duration (i.e., 3 s). Our findings demonstrate that the ability to extract temporal patterns of a motor action depends largely on the subjective expertise, suggesting that sport-acquired sensorimotor skills impact on the temporal representation of the previously observed action, allowing subjects to predict the time course of the action in absence of visual information. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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