Sustained attention in skilled and novice martial arts athletes: a study of event-related potentials and current sources.

ABSTRACT: Background. Research on sports has revealed that behavioral responses and event-related brain potentials (ERP) are better in expert than in novice athletes for sport-related tasks. Focused attention is essential for optimal athletic performance across different sports but mainly in combat disciplines. During combat, long periods of focused attention (i.e., sustained attention) are required for a good performance. Few investigations have reported effects of expertise on brain electrical activity and its neural generators during sport-unrelated attention tasks. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of expertise (i.e., skilled and novice martial arts athletes) analyzing the ERP during a sustained attention task (Continuous Performance Task; CPT) and the cortical three-dimensio

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Lopez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4741076 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature