Selective enhancement of attentional networks in college table tennis athletes: a preliminary investigation
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- Subject Areas
- Neuroscience, Kinesiology, Psychiatry and Psychology
- Keywords
- table tennis athlete, attentional network test, attentional network
- Copyright
- © 2016 Wang et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2016. Selective enhancement of attentional networks in college table tennis athletes: a preliminary investigation. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2508v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2508v1
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate the characteristics of the attentional network in college table tennis athletes. A total of 65 college students categorized as table tennis athlete group or non-athlete group participated in the study. All participants completed the attentional network test (ANT) which measured the alerting, orienting and executive control networks. The results showed a significant difference between the athlete and non-athlete group for executive control network (p <0.01), while no differences were observed for alerting (p>0.05) or orienting (p>0.05) networks. These results combined suggest that college table tennis athletes exhibited selectively enhanced executive control of attentional networks.
Author Comment
This is a submission to PeerJ for review.