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. 2024 Nov 19:6:1476210.
doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1476210. eCollection 2024.

Neural activation patterns in open-skilled and closed-skilled athletes during motor response tasks: insights from ERP analysis

Viktors Veliks  1   2 , Dinass Talents  1 , Andra Fernate  1 , Klavs Evelis  2 , Aleksandrs Kolesovs  2
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Neural activation patterns in open-skilled and closed-skilled athletes during motor response tasks: insights from ERP analysis

Viktors Veliks et al. Front Sports Act Living. .

Abstract

The present study explored behavioral outcomes and neural correlates of cognitive control abilities in open-skill sports athletes compared with closed-skill sports athletes. The participants of the study were 16 right-handed male athletes. Nine basketball players formed a group of athletes from open-skill sports, and seven outdoor track and field runners formed a comparison group for closed-skill sports. During the two-color Choice Response Time task with simultaneous EEG registration, psychophysiological observation was performed to assess athletes' functioning. A significant interaction between a sports type and the hand reveals more symmetrical functioning of the hands in basketball players, which is also confirmed by the neural activity of brain regions responsible for motor action (C3 and C4). Although there was no main effect of the sport type, the study revealed closer patterns of motor action and neural regulation of the left and right hand in open-skilled athletes than in closed-skilled athletes.

Keywords: Choice Response Time task; ERP; lead and trailing hands; neuronal control; open and closed-skill sports.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Schematic representation of the choice response time task.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Comparison of (A) the reaction time (RT) during correct answers of open- and closed-skilled groups and (B) differences between RT of the left and right hand (***p < 0.001, *p < 0.05).
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Figure 3
Time-amplitude plots of ERP for correctly recognized stimuli in frontal (ROI F3, F4, F7, and F8) and motor (ROI C3 and C4) cortex in open- and closed-skilled athletes and corresponding p-levels of t-test (A); topoplot of EEG map of activation patterns for correct responses in the interval from 0 to 700 ms after stimulus onset in open-skills and closed-skills groups (B).
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