A research group at the University of Tsukuba conducts a comparative study of university top-level soccer players and general university student soccer players, and university top-level soccer players perform initial visual information processing, stimulus evaluation, and final exercise in situations. It was clarified that both reaction outputs can be executed in a short time.
The research group has previously shown that soccer players have significantly shorter reaction times for selective response tasks than college students who have no soccer experience.However, the differences in information processing in the brain related to intervening decision-making remained unclear.
Therefore, in this study, 13 university student soccer players (High performance group, hereafter H group) who have won the All Japan University Soccer Championship, and the competition experience at the national level and the prefectural or regional selection tournament so far. For 13 inexperienced college soccer players (Low performance group, hereafter L group), the brain activity during the experimental task assuming the actual play situation (pass selection scene of 4 to 2 ball possession) Measurements were made.
As a result, the task correct answer rate was higher in the H group than in the L group, and the EMG reaction time was shorter.That is, it was considered that the H group can perform more accurate and faster motion / response output than the L group in the scene of path selection.In addition, from the measurement results of event-related potentials, it was found that the H group performs visual information processing more quickly than the L group, and that the evaluation process for visual stimuli is faster.
This study showed a part of the information processing mechanism regarding the speed at which the situation is judged in a soccer player with high competitiveness.In the future, it is expected to be applied to the evaluation method of training aimed at improving the information processing function and the evaluation of the perceptual and cognitive aspects of athletes.