Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert Athletes
The neural efficiency hypothesis was investigated. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to study the differences in brain activity between athletes imagining performing different movements: basketball athletes imagined throwing and volleyball athletes imagined serving. These comparisons of...
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| description | The neural efficiency hypothesis was investigated. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to study the differences in brain activity between athletes imagining performing different movements: basketball athletes imagined throwing and volleyball athletes imagined serving. These comparisons of brain activity among athletes imagining movements from their self-sport (e.g., a basketball throw in basketball athletes) versus movements from other sport (e.g., a volleyball serve in basketball athletes) revealed the neural energy consumption each task costs. The results showed better temporal congruence between motor execution and motor imagery and vividness of motor imagery, but lower levels of activation in the left putamen, inferior parietal lobule, supplementary motor area, postcentral gyrus, and the right insula when both groups of athletes imagined movements from their self-sport compared with when they imagined movements from the other-sport. Athletes were more effective in the representation of the motor sequences and the interoception of the motor sequences for their self-sport. The findings of present study suggest that elite athletes achieved superior behavioral performance with minimal neural energy consumption, thus confirming the neural efficiency hypotheses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-064f72831135485c91e30b45080f0b262022-12-22T03:34:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-12-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02752492570Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert AthletesLanlan Zhang0Fanghui Qiu1Hua Zhu2Mingqiang Xiang3Liangjun Zhou4Department of Leisure Sports and Management, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Physical Education, Qingdao University, Qingdao, ChinaDepartment of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Sport and Health, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Leisure Sports and Management, Guangzhou Sport University, Guangzhou, ChinaThe neural efficiency hypothesis was investigated. Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to study the differences in brain activity between athletes imagining performing different movements: basketball athletes imagined throwing and volleyball athletes imagined serving. These comparisons of brain activity among athletes imagining movements from their self-sport (e.g., a basketball throw in basketball athletes) versus movements from other sport (e.g., a volleyball serve in basketball athletes) revealed the neural energy consumption each task costs. The results showed better temporal congruence between motor execution and motor imagery and vividness of motor imagery, but lower levels of activation in the left putamen, inferior parietal lobule, supplementary motor area, postcentral gyrus, and the right insula when both groups of athletes imagined movements from their self-sport compared with when they imagined movements from the other-sport. Athletes were more effective in the representation of the motor sequences and the interoception of the motor sequences for their self-sport. The findings of present study suggest that elite athletes achieved superior behavioral performance with minimal neural energy consumption, thus confirming the neural efficiency hypotheses.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02752/fullneural efficiencymotor imagerymotor representationmotor repertoiretask-specific |
| spellingShingle | Lanlan Zhang Fanghui Qiu Hua Zhu Mingqiang Xiang Liangjun Zhou Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert Athletes Frontiers in Psychology neural efficiency motor imagery motor representation motor repertoire task-specific |
| title | Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert Athletes |
| title_full | Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert Athletes |
| title_fullStr | Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert Athletes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert Athletes |
| title_short | Neural Efficiency and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study of Expert Athletes |
| title_sort | neural efficiency and acquired motor skills an fmri study of expert athletes |
| topic | neural efficiency motor imagery motor representation motor repertoire task-specific |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02752/full |
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