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Whole-body sensorimotor skill learning in football players: No evidence for motor transfer effects

Besides simple movement sequences, precise whole-body motor sequences are fundamental for top athletic performance. It has long been questioned whether athletes have an advantage when learning new whole-body motor sequences. In a previous study, we did not find any superior learning or transfer effe...

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Autores principales: Maudrich, Tom, Kandt, Hannah, Ragert, Patrick, Kenville, Rouven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35816510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271412
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description Besides simple movement sequences, precise whole-body motor sequences are fundamental for top athletic performance. It has long been questioned whether athletes have an advantage when learning new whole-body motor sequences. In a previous study, we did not find any superior learning or transfer effects of strength and endurance athletes in a complex whole-body serial reaction time task (CWB-SRTT). In the present study, we aimed to extend this research by increasing the overlap of task requirements between CWB-SRTT and a specific sports discipline. For this purpose, we assessed differences between football players and non-athletes during motor sequence learning using CWB-SRTT. 15 non-athletes (CG) and 16 football players (FG) performed the CWB-SRTT over 2 days separated by one week. Median reaction times and movement times were analyzed as well as differences in sequence-specific CWB-SRTT learning rates and retention. Our findings did not reveal any differences in sequence-specific or non-sequence-specific improvement, nor retention rates between CG and FG. We speculate that this might relate to a predominately cognitive-induced learning effect during CWB-SRTT which negates the assumed motor advantage of the football players.
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spelling pubmed-92730652022-07-12 Whole-body sensorimotor skill learning in football players: No evidence for motor transfer effects Maudrich, Tom Kandt, Hannah Ragert, Patrick Kenville, Rouven PLoS One Research Article Besides simple movement sequences, precise whole-body motor sequences are fundamental for top athletic performance. It has long been questioned whether athletes have an advantage when learning new whole-body motor sequences. In a previous study, we did not find any superior learning or transfer effects of strength and endurance athletes in a complex whole-body serial reaction time task (CWB-SRTT). In the present study, we aimed to extend this research by increasing the overlap of task requirements between CWB-SRTT and a specific sports discipline. For this purpose, we assessed differences between football players and non-athletes during motor sequence learning using CWB-SRTT. 15 non-athletes (CG) and 16 football players (FG) performed the CWB-SRTT over 2 days separated by one week. Median reaction times and movement times were analyzed as well as differences in sequence-specific CWB-SRTT learning rates and retention. Our findings did not reveal any differences in sequence-specific or non-sequence-specific improvement, nor retention rates between CG and FG. We speculate that this might relate to a predominately cognitive-induced learning effect during CWB-SRTT which negates the assumed motor advantage of the football players. Public Library of Science 2022-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9273065/ /pubmed/35816510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271412 Text en © 2022 Maudrich et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Whole-body sensorimotor skill learning in football players: No evidence for motor transfer effects
title_full_unstemmed Whole-body sensorimotor skill learning in football players: No evidence for motor transfer effects
title_short Whole-body sensorimotor skill learning in football players: No evidence for motor transfer effects
title_sort whole-body sensorimotor skill learning in football players: no evidence for motor transfer effects
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35816510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271412
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