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Cognitive Potentials and Skill Acquisition in Sports a
Author(s) -
GIOUX MAXIME,
ARNE PIERRE,
PATY JACQUES,
BENSCH CLAUDE
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1984.tb23568.x
Subject(s) - cartography , geography
Electrocortical activity has been shown to be a good indicator of higher brain function. There are three types of electrocortical activity-spontaneous EEG rhythms, evoked potentials and cognitive slow potentials-which can be used to study both endogenous individual differences and differences in reactions of human subjects to external events (Basar, 1980). Spontaneous electroencephalographic (EEG) rhythms, subjected to Fourier Transform analysis, are good indicators of awareness and global brain activation changes (Gevins et al.. 1979; Pfurtscheller et al.. 1980). Evoked potentials have been used in the study of selective attention (Lesevre, 1979) and event-related slow potentials have been shown to be related to attentional, emotional and motivational processes (Donchin et al., 1978; Paty et al., 1979). Neurometric studies on large populations (John, 1977) have provided evidence for electrocortical correlates of individual differences. Skill acquisition in sport is characterized by repetitive programmed motor activity. Many studies have shown that there are functional brain changes related to execution of a movement, but there are few data on the central effects of long-term athletic activity (Carlow and Appenzeller, 1981). I n a study of 81 subjects we attempted to correlate electrocortical activity with athletic training.