Paolini Simone, Presti Paolo, Scalona Emilia, Boccolini Gabriele, Rizzolatti Giacomo, Fabbri-Destro Maddalena, Avanzini Pietro
Department of Surgery and Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Institute of Neuroscience, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Parma, Italy.
Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 16;15(1):13057. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-85130-y.
In sports, players constantly engage in understanding others' actions and intentions. Previous studies have highlighted that possessing the observed action in the individual motor repertoire improves the prediction abilities of the observer. Here, we tested the extent to which players' ability to predict soccer actions is influenced by their motor repertoire, which is modulated not only by their generic expertise but also by the specific position played on the field. To these aims, two experiments were conducted by asking players to predict the result of typical soccer actions and comparing accuracies with data concerning their soccer career. Results revealed that both general expertise and position-specific experience significantly impacted prediction performance, with the highest accuracy observed when actions aligned with players' positional expertise. These findings highlight that the motor resonance mechanism is finely attuned to the individual's motor repertoire, which operates as a continuum - from no experience to advanced expertise in a specific position - enabling a dynamic, experience-driven enhancement of action prediction in sports.
在体育运动中，运动员不断地理解他人的动作和意图。先前的研究强调，在个人运动技能库中拥有观察到的动作能提高观察者的预测能力。在此，我们测试了运动员预测足球动作的能力在多大程度上受到其运动技能库的影响，而运动技能库不仅受其一般专业水平的调节，还受其在场上所踢具体位置的调节。为了实现这些目标，我们进行了两项实验，要求运动员预测典型足球动作的结果，并将准确率与他们足球生涯的数据进行比较。结果显示，一般专业水平和特定位置的经验都对预测表现有显著影响，当动作与运动员的位置专业知识相匹配时，观察到的准确率最高。这些发现突出表明，运动共鸣机制能很好地适应个体的运动技能库，运动技能库作为一个连续体运作——从无经验到特定位置的高级专业水平——从而在体育运动中实现由经验驱动的动作预测动态增强。
