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Pietsch, Stefanie ; Jansen, Petra ; Lehmann, Jennifer

The Choice of Sports Affects Mental Rotation Performance in Adolescents

Pietsch, Stefanie, Jansen, Petra und Lehmann, Jennifer (2019) The Choice of Sports Affects Mental Rotation Performance in Adolescents. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13 (224), S. 1-8.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.40441


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This study investigates mental rotation performance of adolescent female dancers and soccer players in object-based and egocentric mental rotation tasks using human body stimuli. 60 young females, 30 soccer players, and 30 dancers (not twosome), completed a chronometric mental rotation task with object-based and egocentric transformation of male and female figures, which were displayed either in ...

This study investigates mental rotation performance of adolescent female dancers and soccer players in object-based and egocentric mental rotation tasks using human body stimuli. 60 young females, 30 soccer players, and 30 dancers (not twosome), completed a chronometric mental rotation task with object-based and egocentric transformation of male and female figures, which were displayed either in front or back view. During their sport-specific activity soccer-players and dancers very often have to adapt their movements to the movement of a partner or opponent, soccer-players especially in front view positions. While for soccer-players reaction time (RT) often is crucial for sporting success, dancers mainly focus on the accuracy of their movements. Therefore, we expect significantly faster RTs for soccer players for front view stimuli but no differences between soccer players and dancers for back view stimuli. The main result was that soccer-players showed a significantly shorter RT than dancers for stimuli presented in front view in object based and egocentric transformation. There was no such difference, when the stimuli were presented in the back view. Contrary to literature we didn't find significantly higher RTs and error rates for stimuli presented in front view compared to back view in general but only for egocentric transformations. The results of this study show that specific sports affect individual aspects of mental rotation performance.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftFrontiers in Neuroscience
Verlag:Frontiers
Ort der Veröffentlichung:LAUSANNE
Band:13
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels:224
Seitenbereich:S. 1-8
Datum13 März 2019
InstitutionenHumanwissenschaften > Institut für Sportwissenschaft
Identifikationsnummer
WertTyp
10.3389/fnins.2019.00224DOI
Stichwörter / KeywordsSPATIAL ABILITY; SEX-DIFFERENCES; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; MOTOR EXPERTISE; REACTION-TIME; OBJECT; COGNITION; EXERCISE; STUDENTS; IMAGERY; mental rotation; sports; object-based transformations; egocentric transformations; dancing; soccer; visual-spatial abilities
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 796 Sport
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-404413
Dokumenten-ID40441

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