Jansen, Petra and Lehmann, Jennifer and Van Doren, Jessica (2012) Mental Rotation Performance in Male Soccer Players. PLOS ONE, 7 (10): e48620. ISSN 1932-6203,
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It is the main goal of this study to investigate the visual-spatial cognition in male soccer players. Forty males (20 soccer players and 20 non-athletes) solved a chronometric mental rotation task with both cubed and embodied figures (human figures, body postures). The results confirm previous results that all participants had a lower mental rotation speed for cube figures compared to embodied figures and a higher error rate for cube figures, but only at angular disparities greater than 90 degrees. It is a new finding that soccer-players showed a faster reaction time for embodied stimuli. Because rotation speed did not differ between soccer-players and non-athletes this finding cannot be attributed to the mental rotation process itself but instead to differences in one of the following processes which are involved in a mental rotation task: the encoding process, the maintanence of readiness, or the motor process. The results are discussed against the background of the influence on longterm physical activity on mental rotation and the context of embodied cognition.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SPATIAL ABILITY; 3-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS; SEX-DIFFERENCES; EXPERTISE; SPORT; TRANSFORMATIONS; METAANALYSIS; |
| Subjects: | 700 Arts & recreation > 796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Sportwissenschaft |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2020 05:12 |
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2020 05:12 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/17921 |
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