Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Evaluation and Sports Intervention, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China; College of Physical Education and Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
College of Physical Education and Health Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China.
Neurosci Lett. 2023 May 14;805:137218. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137218. Epub 2023 Mar 30.
Previous research has suggested that long-term exercise training can influence trusting behaviors, but the supporting evidence is limited. Therefore, exploring inter-athlete trust behaviors and its neural mechanism could better answer the potential association between athletic training and trust behaviors. Accordingly, the present study used a trust game (TG) task to assess interpersonal trust behavior in the sex-specific athlete group and the ordinary college group; and a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning technology was used to capture the interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) in brain regions of interest to the dyads. The results showed that the athlete group had significantly higher trust behaviors and significantly higher INS in the left frontal pole and left dorsolateral prefrontal than the college group; male athletes had significantly higher trust behaviors and significantly higher INS in the left dorsolateral prefrontal than female athletes. This study suggests that athletes have better trusting behaviors and that this advantage may be related to enhanced INS in the left dorsolateral prefrontal lobe.
先前的研究表明，长期的运动训练可以影响信任行为，但支持这一观点的证据有限。因此，探索运动员之间的信任行为及其神经机制可以更好地回答运动训练与信任行为之间的潜在关联。因此，本研究使用信任游戏（TG）任务来评估特定性别运动员群体和普通大学生群体的人际信任行为；并使用功能近红外光谱（fNIRS）超扫描技术来捕捉对双体感兴趣的大脑区域的人际神经同步（INS）。结果表明，与大学生群体相比，运动员群体的信任行为显著更高，左额极和左背外侧前额叶的 INS 也显著更高；与女运动员相比，男运动员的信任行为显著更高，左背外侧前额叶的 INS 也显著更高。本研究表明，运动员具有更好的信任行为，而这种优势可能与左背外侧前额叶 INS 的增强有关。
