An exceptional ability to accurately anticipate an opponent's action is paramount for
competitive athletes and highlights their experiential mastery. Despite conventional …

The action observation network (AON) is supposed to play a crucial role when athletes
anticipate the effect of others' actions in sports such as tennis. We used functional magnetic …

The ability to predict the trajectory of a ball based on the opponent's body kinematics has
been shown to be critical to high-performing athletes in many sports. However, little is known …

The goal of this study was to reconcile inconsistency of neural engagement underlying
action anticipation between experts and nonexperts, as well as between correct and …

Motor expertise acquired during long-term training in sports enables top athletes to predict
the outcomes of domain-specific actions better than nonexperts do. However, whether …

We examined the effect of expertise on cortical activation during sports anticipation using
functional MRI. In experiment 1, recreational players predicted badminton stroke direction …

The ability to predict the actions of others is quintessential for effective social interactions,
particularly in competitive contexts (eg in sport) when knowledge about upcoming …

Athletes extract kinematic information to anticipate action outcomes. Here, we examined the
influence of linguistic information (experiment 1, 2) and its underlying neural correlates …

Some studies show that the medial frontal cortex is associated with more skilled action
anticipation, while similar findings are not observed in some other studies, possibly due to …

In many daily activities, and especially in sport, it is necessary to predict the effects of others'
actions in order to initiate appropriate responses. Recently, researchers have suggested that …