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- Title
Brain mechanisms linking language processing and open motor skill training.
- Authors
Yixuan Wang; Qingchun Ji; Chenglin Zhou; Yingying Wang
- Abstract
Given the discovery of a distributed language and motor functional network, surprisingly few studies have explored whether language processing is related to motor skill training. To address this issue, the present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare whole-brain activation between nonexperts and experts in table tennis, an open skill sport in which players make rapid decisions in response to an ever-changing environment. Whole-brain activation was assessed in 30 expert table tennis players with more than 7 years’ experience and 35 age-matched nonexpert college students while they performed both a size and a semantic judgment task of words presented on a monitor. Compared with nonexperts, expert table tennis players showed greater activation in the left middle occipital gyrus and right precuneus while judging the size of the words versus during baseline fixation. They also showed greater activation in the left lingual gyrus during the semantic judgment task versus during baseline fixation. Our findings indicate that the visual regions engaged in language processing are associated with open motor skill training.
- Subjects
MOTOR ability; FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging; TABLE tennis players; CONTACT sports; TABLE tennis; JUDGMENT (Psychology)
- Publication
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022, Vol 16, p1
- ISSN
1662-5161
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fnhum.2022.911894