Graduate Institute of Sports Training, University of Taipei, Taipei City 111036, Taiwan.
Physical Education Office, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei City 300044, Taiwan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 1;19(1):468. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010468.
Badminton is recognized as the fastest racket sport in the world based on the speed of the birdie which can travel up to 426 km per hour. On the badminton court, players are not only required to track the moving badminton birdie (visual tracking and information integration) but also must anticipate the exact timing to hit it back (temporal estimation). However, the association of training experience related to visuomotor integration or temporal prediction ability remains unclear. In this study, we tested this hypothesis by examining the association between training experience and visuomotor performances after adjusting for age, education, and cardiovascular fitness levels. Twenty-eight professional badminton players were asked to perform a compensatory tracking task and a time/movement estimation task for measuring visuomotor integration and temporal prediction, respectively. Correlation analysis revealed a strong association between training experience and performance on visuomotor integration, indicating badminton training may be promoted to develop visuomotor integration ability. Furthermore, the regression model suggests training experience explains 32% of visuomotor integration performances. These behavioral findings suggest badminton training may facilitate the perceptual-cognitive performance related to visuomotor integration. Our findings highlight the potential training in visuomotor integration may apply to eye-hand coordination performance in badminton sport.
羽毛球被认为是世界上速度最快的球拍类运动，球速最高可达每小时 426 公里。在羽毛球场上，运动员不仅需要跟踪移动的羽毛球（视觉跟踪和信息整合），还必须准确预测击球时间（时间估计）。然而，训练经验与视动整合或时间预测能力之间的关联尚不清楚。在这项研究中，我们通过检查训练经验与视觉运动表现之间的关联，调整年龄、教育和心血管健康水平等因素，来检验这一假设。我们要求 28 名专业羽毛球运动员分别完成补偿跟踪任务和时间/运动估计任务，以测量视动整合和时间预测能力。相关分析显示，训练经验与视动整合表现之间存在很强的关联，这表明羽毛球训练可能有助于提高视动整合能力。此外，回归模型表明，训练经验可以解释 32%的视动整合表现。这些行为学发现表明，羽毛球训练可能有助于提高与视动整合相关的感知认知表现。我们的研究结果强调了在视动整合方面进行潜在训练可能适用于羽毛球运动中的手眼协调表现。
