Selective enhancement of attentional networks in college table tennis athletes: a preliminary investigation
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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.
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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 PeerJ Preprints 4:e2508v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2508v1note This preprint is not peer-reviewed. You may wish to reference the subsequent peer-reviewed version of this article.
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Author Contributions
Biye Wang conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.
Wei Guo conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables.
Chenglin Zhou conceived and designed the experiments, reviewed drafts of the paper.
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This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Shanghai University of Sport (No. 2015014).
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The raw data has been supplied as a supplementary file.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 31571151]; and the Graduate Education Innovation Project of Shanghai University of Sport [grant number yjscx2016004]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
