Boisgontier Matthieu P, Serbruyns Leen, Swinnen Stephan P
Department of Kinesiology, Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Group of Biomedical Sciences KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Front Psychol. 2017 Feb 20;8:249. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00249. eCollection 2017.
Practice of a given physical activity is known to improve the motor skills related to this activity. However, whether unrelated skills are also improved is still unclear. To test the impact of physical activity on an unpracticed motor task, 26 young adults completed the international physical activity questionnaire and performed a bimanual coordination task they had never practiced before. Results showed that higher total physical activity predicted higher performance in the bimanual task, controlling for multiple factors such as age, physical inactivity, music practice, and computer games practice. Linear mixed models allowed this effect of physical activity to be generalized to a large population of bimanual coordination conditions. This finding runs counter to the notion that generalized motor abilities do not exist and supports the existence of a "learning to learn" skill that could be improved through physical activity and that impacts performance in tasks that are not necessarily related to the practiced activity.
已知进行特定的体育活动能提高与该活动相关的运动技能。然而，与之无关的技能是否也会得到提高仍不明确。为了测试体育活动对一项未练习过的运动任务的影响，26名年轻成年人完成了国际体育活动问卷，并进行了一项他们从未练习过的双手协调任务。结果表明，在控制了年龄、缺乏体育活动、音乐练习和电脑游戏练习等多个因素后，较高的总体体育活动水平预示着在双手任务中表现更好。线性混合模型使体育活动的这种效果能够推广到大量双手协调条件的人群中。这一发现与不存在通用运动能力的观点相悖，并支持存在一种“学会学习”的技能，这种技能可以通过体育活动得到提高，并且会影响不一定与所练习活动相关的任务的表现。
