Muiños Mónica, Ballesteros Soledad
Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Juan del Rosal 10, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Perception. 2013;42(10):1043-50. doi: 10.1068/p7567.
The present study compared the performance of a group of sixteen kung fu athletes with that of a control group of fourteen nonathletes on a speeded visuospatial task and a hand-tapping motor task. In the visuospatial task the results showed that athletes were faster than the control participants when stimuli were presented at the periphery of the visual field at a middle and high presentation speed with short interstimulus intervals. Athletes were also significantly faster than nonathlete participants when performing motor actions such as hand-tapping with their dominant hand but groups did not differ with the nondominant hand. These results support the view that athletes perform some speeded visuospatial and motor tasks faster than nonathletes under certain conditions. The findings suggest that, after several years of practice, kung fu athletes develop certain skills that allow them to perform motor speed maneuvers under time pressure conditions.
本研究比较了一组16名功夫运动员与14名非运动员对照组在快速视觉空间任务和手部敲击运动任务中的表现。在视觉空间任务中，结果表明，当刺激以中等和高呈现速度、短刺激间隔呈现在视野边缘时，运动员比对照组参与者速度更快。在进行诸如用优势手进行手部敲击等运动动作时，运动员也明显比非运动员参与者速度更快，但在使用非优势手时两组没有差异。这些结果支持了这样一种观点，即在某些条件下，运动员在一些快速视觉空间和运动任务中的表现比非运动员更快。研究结果表明，经过数年的训练，功夫运动员发展出了某些技能，使他们能够在时间压力条件下进行运动速度动作。
