Quantitative but Not Qualitative Performance Changes in Predictive Motor Timing as a Result of Overtraining

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/20:00115579

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12311-019-01100-x" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12311-019-01100-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12311-019-01100-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12311-019-01100-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Quantitative but Not Qualitative Performance Changes in Predictive Motor Timing as a Result of Overtraining

Original language description

The possibilities of substantial long-term improvement of predictive timing might be sometimes seen as limited, with scanty information of neural substrates underlying the potential learning process. To address this issue, we have investigated the performance of 21 baseball professionals and 21 matched controls in a predictive motor timing task previously shown to engage the cerebellum. Baseball players, hypothesized as a model of overtraining of the prediction of future state of the surroundings, showed significantly higher quantitative performance than nonathletic controls, with a substantial part of the baseball players reaching levels far beyond the range observed in common population. Furthermore, the qualitative performance profile of baseball players under various conditions as target speed and acceleration modes did not differ from the profile of healthy controls. Our results suggest that regular exigent training has the potential to vastly improve predictive motor timing. Moreover, the quantitative but not qualitative difference in the performance profile allows us to hypothesize that the selective honing of the same cerebellar processes and networks as in non-trained individuals is the substrate for the quantitative performance improvement, without substantial engagement of further neural nodes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cerebellum

ISSN

1473-4222

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

201-207

UT code for WoS article

000505364700004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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