Embodied perception in sport

Gray, Rob

doi:10.1080/1750984x.2013.871572

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“…Similar sport-specific experiments that have offered evidence of embodied cognition include golfers (Witt and Linkenauger, 2008), American football players (Witt and Dorsch, 2009), and baseball players (Witt and Proffitt, 2005). Recently, there has been empirical evidence that supports the idea that the perception of objects in the sporting environment is embodied (Gray, 2014). …”

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

2015

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

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“…Moreover, variations in height perception and success rate in the low-and high-pressure conditions were not significantly correlated. It has been suggested that perceptual distortions are misperceptions resulting from performance decrements, or that perceptual distortions play a functional role in maintaining performance [15]. Although the perceptual distortion observed in this study could be regarded as playing a functional role in task performance, it is difficult to eliminate the possibility that the distortion might lead to a performance decrement if a stronger level of stress, similar to an actual athletic competition, were to be induced under pressure.…”

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Psychological Pressure Distorts High Jumpers’ Perception of the Height of the Bar

Tanaka

Sasaki

Karakida

et al. 2018

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Abstract:The effects of psychological pressure on perceiving the height of a jump bar just before starting a high jump run was investigated. University students (n = 14) training for a high jump event performed 15 trials (3 practice, 6 high-pressure, and 6 low-pressure) in counterbalanced order in their daily practice environment. The height of the bar was judged as significantly higher on high-pressure trials compared to low-pressure trials (p = 0.030). A regression analysis indicated that participants who reported increased subjective perceived pressure tended to judge the bar to be higher (r = 0.468, p = 0.091). There was no significant difference between high-pressure and low-pressure trials for the performance index, defined as the success rate (p = 0.209). This study provides the first evidence that environmental perceptions prior to executing a motor task under pressure may make performance of the task appear to be more difficult.

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“…In addition, variations of height perception and success rate from non-pressure to pressure conditions were not significantly correlated. It has been existed a contradictory explanation that perceptual distortion is considered misperceptions related to performance decrements, or perceptual distortion plays as functional roles to maintain performance [15]. Although the perceptual distortion observed in this study would be therefore regarded as playing a functional role in task performance, it is difficult to eliminate the possibility that the distortion might lead to a performance decrement if a stronger level of stress response, similar to an actual athletic competition, was induced under pressure.…”

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Psychological Pressure Distorts High Jumpers’ Perception of the Height of the Bar

Tanaka¹,

Sasaki²,

Karakida³

et al. 2018

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The effects of psychological pressure on perceiving the height of a jump bar just before starting a high jump run was investigated. University students (N = 14) training for a high jump event performed 15 trials (3 practice, 6 pressure, and 6 non-pressure) in counterbalanced order in their daily practice environment. The height of the bar was judged as significantly higher on pressure trials compared to non-pressure trials. A regression analysis indicated that participants who reported increased subjective perceived pressure tended to judge the bar to be higher. There was no significant difference between pressure and non-pressure trials for the performance index, defined as the success rate. This study provides the first evidence that environmental perceptions prior to executing a motor task under pressure may make performance of the task appear to be more difficult.

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Embodied perception in sport

Cited by 22 publications

References 43 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

Psychological Pressure Distorts High Jumpers’ Perception of the Height of the Bar

Psychological Pressure Distorts High Jumpers’ Perception of the Height of the Bar

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Embodied perception in sport

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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

Psychological Pressure Distorts High Jumpers’ Perception of the Height of the Bar

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