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Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Exercise Physiology
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1476210

Neural activation patterns in open-skilled and closed-skilled athletes during motor response tasks: Insights from ERP analysis

Provisionally accepted
Viktors Veliks Viktors Veliks 1,2*Dinass Talents Dinass Talents 2Andra Fernate Andra Fernate 2Klavs Evelis Klavs Evelis 1Aleksandrs Kolesovs Aleksandrs Kolesovs 1
  • 1 University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
  • 2 Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia

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    The present study explored behavioral outcomes and neural correlates of cognitive control abilities in open-skill sports athletes compared with closed-skill sports athletes. The participants of the study were 16 right-handed male athletes. Nine basketball players formed a group of athletes from openskill sports, and seven outdoor track and field runners formed a comparison group for closed-skill sports. During the two-color Choice Response Time task with simultaneous EEG registration, psychophysiological observation was performed to assess athletes' functioning. A significant interaction between a sports type and the hand reveals more symmetrical functioning of the hands in basketball players, which is also confirmed by the neural activity of brain regions responsible for motor action (C3 and C4). Although there was no main effect of the sport type, the study revealed closer patterns of motor action and neural regulation of the left and right hand in open-skilled athletes than in closed-skilled athletes.

    Keywords: open and closed-skill sports, choice response time task, lead and trailing hands, ERP, Neuronal control

    Received: 05 Aug 2024; Accepted: 01 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Veliks, Talents, Fernate, Evelis and Kolesovs. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Viktors Veliks, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

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