Goya Ryoma, Aoyama Chisa, Takami Ayaka, Komiyama Takaaki, Shimegi Satoshi
Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.
Faculty of Sports and Health Science, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 23;15(1):10015. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-94663-1.
Table tennis (TT) players, through repetitive exposure to visual motion, may develop enhanced visual motion discriminability due to perceptual learning. This study compared visual motion direction discrimination (MDD) abilities among TT, soccer (SC) players, and track and field (TF) athletes using random dot kinematogram tests. Participants discriminated the direction of coherently moving dots with and without surrounding dots randomly moving (background noise). TT and SC players significantly outperformed TF athletes in MDD tasks at specific visual field eccentricities. TT players showed superior discriminability in near-peripheral vision, likely due to the frequent need to track a ball in this area during play. In contrast, SC players excelled in far-peripheral vision, reflecting their experience monitoring a broader visual field. This advantage was pronounced in conditions with background noise, emphasizing the importance of figure-ground segregation for extracting the motion specific to the athlete's behavioral decision from various surrounding motions. We conclude that the sport-specific visual experiences of TT and SC players, particularly their repeated exposure to unique visual motion environments, lead to enhanced motion discriminability that is finely tuned to their respective sport's demands. This improvement supports superior visuomotor performance and underscores perceptual learning's adaptability to the distinct challenges in different sports.
乒乓球（TT）运动员由于反复接触视觉运动，可能会通过知觉学习提高视觉运动辨别能力。本研究使用随机点运动图测试比较了乒乓球运动员、足球（SC）运动员和田径（TF）运动员的视觉运动方向辨别（MDD）能力。参与者辨别连贯移动的点的方向，这些点周围有或没有随机移动的点（背景噪声）。在特定视野偏心率下的MDD任务中，乒乓球和足球运动员的表现明显优于田径运动员。乒乓球运动员在近周边视觉中表现出卓越的辨别能力，这可能是由于在比赛中频繁需要在该区域追踪球。相比之下，足球运动员在远周边视觉方面表现出色，这反映了他们监测更广阔视野的经验。在有背景噪声的条件下，这种优势更为明显，强调了从周围各种运动中提取特定于运动员行为决策的运动时，图形-背景分离的重要性。我们得出结论，乒乓球和足球运动员的特定运动视觉体验，特别是他们反复接触独特的视觉运动环境，导致运动辨别能力增强，这种能力根据各自运动的需求进行了精细调整。这种改进支持了卓越的视觉运动表现，并强调了知觉学习对不同运动中独特挑战的适应性。
