A1 Journal article (refereed)
Hand‐related action words impair action anticipation in expert table tennis players : Behavioral and neural evidence (2022)

Wang, Y., Ji, Q., Fu, R., Zhang, G., Lu, Y., & Zhou, C. (2022). Hand‐related action words impair action anticipation in expert table tennis players : Behavioral and neural evidence. Psychophysiology, 59(1), Article e13942. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13942

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Wang, Yingying; Ji, Qingchun; Fu, Rao; Zhang, Guanghui; Lu, Yingzhi; Zhou, Chenglin

Journal or series: Psychophysiology

ISSN: 0048-5772

eISSN: 1469-8986

Publication year: 2022

Publication date: 18/09/2021

Volume: 59

Issue number: 1

Article number: e13942

Publisher: Wiley

Publication country: United States

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13942

Publication open access: Not open

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/84488

Abstract

Athletes extract kinematic information to anticipate action outcomes. Here, we examined the influence of linguistic information (experiment 1, 2) and its underlying neural correlates (experiment 2) on anticipatory judgment. Table tennis experts and novices remembered a hand- or leg-related verb or a spatial location while predicting the trajectory of a ball in a video occluded at the moment of the serve. Experiment 1 showed that predictions by experts were more accurate than novices, but experts’ accuracy significantly decreased when hand-related words versus spatial locations were memorized. For nonoccluded videos with ball trajectories congruent or incongruent with server actions in experiment 2, remembering hand-related verbs shared cognitive resources with action anticipation only in experts, with heightened processing load (increased P3 amplitude) and more efficient conflict monitoring (decreased N2 amplitude) versus leg-related verbs. Thus, action anticipation required updating of motor representations facilitated by motor expertize but was also affected by effector-specific semantic representations of actions, suggesting a link from language to motor systems.

Keywords: motor functions; neurolinguistics; cognitive processes; attention; anticipation; stimuli (role related to effect); table tennis

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Reporting Year: 2022

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