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Peak occipital alpha frequency mediates the relationship between sporting expertise and multiple object tracking performance.
Mackenzie, Andrew K; Baker, Joshua; Daly, Rosie C; Howard, Christina J.
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  • Mackenzie AK; NTU Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
  • Baker J; Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
  • Daly RC; NTU Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
  • Howard CJ; NTU Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Brain Behav ; 14(2): e3434, 2024 02.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38383037
ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is often used as a lab-based paradigm for investigating goal-driven attention as an indicator for "real-world" attention in tasks such as sport. When exploring MOT performance in the context of sporting expertise, we typically observe that individuals with sporting expertise outperform non-sporting individuals. There are a number of general explanations for performance differences such as cognitive transfer effects; however, the potential neurophysiological mechanisms explaining the relationship between sporting expertise and performance differences in MOT are not clear. Based on the role occipital alpha (posterior oscillations usually around 8-12 Hz) has been shown to have in visuospatial attention, the aim of this study was to examine whether individual differences in occipital peak alpha frequency (PAF) mediate the relationship between sporting expertise and performance in two object tracking tasks a standard MOT task and a visuomotor-controlled object tracking task (multiple object avoidance [MOA]).

METHOD:

Using electroencephalography (EEG), participants, who either played sport competitively or did not, had their posterior PAF measured at rest (eyes closed) across a 2-min window. They completed the two tasks separately from the resting EEG measures.

RESULTS:

Those who engaged in sport performed better in the MOT and MOA tasks and had higher PAF. Higher PAF predicted superior MOT performance. The mediation analysis revealed that sporting individuals had significantly higher PAF, and this was in turn related to superior MOT performance.

CONCLUSIONS:

It is suggested that PAF is a possible neurophysiological mediating mechanism as to why sporting individuals have superior MOT performance. There was no evidence that PAF mediated the relationship between sporting expertise and visuomotor MOA performance. Explanations and implications are discussed, and unanswered questions are proposed.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Atención / Deportes Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Brain Behav Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Atención / Deportes Límite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Brain Behav Año: 2024 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos