Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
J Gen Psychol. 2024 Apr-Jun;151(2):173-185. doi: 10.1080/00221309.2023.2241950. Epub 2023 Aug 13.
Highly trained team sports players possess highly developed visual attentional skills, compared with non-athletes. These athletes also have much better motor control than non-athletes. This study compared the performance of intensively trained handball players with non-athletes in a modified version of the multiple object tracking (MOT) task, in which participants were instructed to point at the moving targets with their fingers. We hypothesized that athletes will perform better in the MOT task than non-athletes, and that the increased visual attentional load in the MOT task will affect pointing movements to a smaller degree in athletes than in non-athletes. The results partially support our hypotheses. Highly trained handball players performed much better in the MOT task than non-athletes, which confirms that athletes have better visual attentional skills. Considering the influence of attentional load on motor performance during the MOT task, the results suggest that among athletes, this influence may be present, but limited. However, this result should be interpreted with caution.
相比非运动员，经过高度训练的团队运动选手拥有高度发达的视觉注意力技能。这些运动员的运动控制能力也比非运动员强得多。本研究通过改良的多项追踪任务（MOT）比较了专业手球运动员和非运动员的表现，该任务要求参与者用手指指向移动的目标。我们假设运动员在 MOT 任务中的表现将优于非运动员，并且在 MOT 任务中增加的视觉注意力负荷对运动员的指向运动的影响程度将小于非运动员。研究结果部分支持了我们的假设。经过高度训练的手球运动员在 MOT 任务中的表现明显优于非运动员，这证实了运动员具有更好的视觉注意力技能。考虑到 MOT 任务中注意力负荷对运动表现的影响，结果表明，在运动员中，这种影响可能存在，但有限。然而，这个结果应该谨慎解释。
