Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL, USA.
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
Hum Mov Sci. 2023 Jun;89:103092. doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2023.103092. Epub 2023 Apr 17.
The ability to respond quickly and accurately to spatial cues is of great importance to performance on any task where quick decision-making is required. The two main effects of spatial attention are priming, when a response to a target is facilitated after being cued at the same location, and inhibition of return (IOR), when the response to the target is slower to the cued area. Whether priming or IOR occurs is largely dependent on the length of the interval between the cue and the target. To determine whether these effects are relevant to dueling sports with deceptive actions we created a boxing-specific task that mimicked combinations of feints and punches. Altogether, we recruited 20 boxers and 20 non-boxers and found significantly longer reaction times to a punch thrown on the same side as a fake punch after a 600 ms interval, consistent with the IOR effect. We also found a moderate positive correlation between years of training and the magnitude of the IOR effect. This latter finding indicates that even athletes trained to avoid deception can be as susceptible as novices if the timing of the feint is right. Finally, our approach highlights the benefits of studying IOR using more sport specific settings, broadening the scope of the field.
快速准确地对空间线索做出反应的能力对于任何需要快速决策的任务的表现都非常重要。空间注意的两个主要影响是启动，当目标在同一位置被提示时，对目标的反应会得到促进，以及返回抑制（IOR），当目标对提示区域的反应较慢时。启动还是 IOR 发生在很大程度上取决于提示和目标之间的间隔长度。为了确定这些效应是否与具有欺骗性动作的决斗运动有关，我们创建了一个专门针对拳击的任务，模拟了假动作和出拳的组合。总共，我们招募了 20 名拳击手和 20 名非拳击手，发现在 600 毫秒的间隔后，对与假拳相同一侧的出拳的反应时间明显更长，这与 IOR 效应一致。我们还发现，训练年限与 IOR 效应的幅度之间存在中度正相关。后一种发现表明，即使是受过避免欺骗训练的运动员，如果假动作的时机正确，也可能像新手一样容易受到影响。最后，我们的方法强调了使用更具体的运动设置研究 IOR 的好处，拓宽了该领域的范围。
