Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience (BioNeC), University of Palermo, Italy.
Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Jun;112(3):915-25. doi: 10.2466/05.22.27.PMS.112.3.915-925.
In the present study, differences in visuospatial attention lateralization were evaluated in athletes engaged in open-compared to closed-skill sports and sedentary nonathletes. 23 volleyball players (open skill; Italian national level and regional level), 10 rowers (closed skill, Italian national level), and 23 sedentary participants responded to a computerized line-length judgment task. Five lines, differing in the length of their right and left segments, were randomly presented; the respondent made a forced-choice decision about the respective length of the two segments. Volleyball players responded significantly faster; those at the higher competitive level were also more accurate, making a statistically significantly lower number of leftward errors as compared with rowers and controls. If such responses are due to training rather than self-selection of ability, then the results may suggest the possibility of changing the distribution of visuospatial attention by training in open-skill sports.
在本研究中，评估了从事开放式技能运动与封闭式技能运动的运动员和久坐不动的非运动员之间的视空间注意侧化差异。23 名排球运动员（开放式技能；意大利国家和地区水平）、10 名赛艇运动员（封闭式技能，意大利国家水平）和 23 名久坐不动的参与者对计算机化的线长判断任务做出反应。随机呈现五条不同长度的线段，其左右段长度不同；应答者对两段的相应长度做出强制性选择判断。排球运动员的反应速度明显更快；高水平的运动员也更加准确，与赛艇运动员和对照组相比，他们的左偏错误数量要少得多。如果这些反应是由于训练而不是能力的自我选择，那么结果可能表明通过开放式技能运动训练改变视空间注意分布的可能性。
