Don't look, don't think, just do it! Toward an understanding of alpha gating in a discrete aiming task.

ABSTRACT: Prior to and during movement, oscillatory alpha activity gates cognitive resources toward motor areas of the cortex by inhibiting neuronal excitability in nonmotor areas. The present study examined the effect of manipulating target variability on this alpha gating phenomenon. Using a baseline-test-retention design, we measured EEG alpha power, performance accuracy, and task difficulty in 32 recreational golfers as they putted golf balls (20 per target) to one central target (baseline, retention) and four targets of different directions and extents (manipulation). For participants in the random group (n = 16), target location varied with each repetition in a random fashion, whereas for participants in the blocked group (n = 16), it was kept constant within blocks. Regional analyses revealed

SUBMITTER: Gallicchio G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849619 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature