J 2020

Quantitative but Not Qualitative Performance Changes in Predictive Motor Timing as a Result of Overtraining

MARKOVÁ, Lenka, Martin BAREŠ, Ovidiu V. LUNGU and Pavel FILIP

Basic information

Original name

Quantitative but Not Qualitative Performance Changes in Predictive Motor Timing as a Result of Overtraining

Authors

MARKOVÁ, Lenka (203 Czech Republic), Martin BAREŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ovidiu V. LUNGU (124 Canada) and Pavel FILIP (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Cerebellum, New York, Springer, 2020, 1473-4222

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30103 Neurosciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.847

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/20:00115579

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

UT WoS

000505364700004

Keywords in English

Predictive motor timing; Overtraining; Cerebellum; Cerebellar learning

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 10/11/2020 08:18, Mgr. Tereza Miškechová

Abstract

V originále

The possibilities of substantial long-term improvement of predictive timing might be sometimes seen as limited, with scanty information of neural substrates underlying the potential learning process. To address this issue, we have investigated the performance of 21 baseball professionals and 21 matched controls in a predictive motor timing task previously shown to engage the cerebellum. Baseball players, hypothesized as a model of overtraining of the prediction of future state of the surroundings, showed significantly higher quantitative performance than nonathletic controls, with a substantial part of the baseball players reaching levels far beyond the range observed in common population. Furthermore, the qualitative performance profile of baseball players under various conditions as target speed and acceleration modes did not differ from the profile of healthy controls. Our results suggest that regular exigent training has the potential to vastly improve predictive motor timing. Moreover, the quantitative but not qualitative difference in the performance profile allows us to hypothesize that the selective honing of the same cerebellar processes and networks as in non-trained individuals is the substrate for the quantitative performance improvement, without substantial engagement of further neural nodes.