Tennis: For the health of it!

J Groppel, N DiNubile - The Physician and sportsmedicine, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Tennis is a sport with numerous health benefits for individuals of all ages. It is also a
tremendously effective fitness activity. Regular participants experience a wide variety of …

Does physical exercise improve perceptual skills and visuospatial attention in older adults? A review

M Muiños, S Ballesteros - European Review of Aging and Physical Activity, 2018 - Springer
Neuroimaging studies suggest that when the brain ages, more areas are involved to perform
a task in order to obtain the same results. This, together with the increase in crystalized …

Experts in fast-ball sports reduce anticipation timing cost by developing inhibitory control

H Nakamoto, S Mori - Brain and cognition, 2012 - Elsevier
The present study was conducted to examine the relationship between expertise in
movement correction and rate of movement reprogramming within limited time periods, and …

Relationship between decreased swimming velocity and muscle activity during 200-m front crawl

Y Ikuta, Y Matsuda, Y Yamada, N Kida, S Oda… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Springer
The aims of this study were (1) to evaluate changes in muscle activity associated with
physiological fatigue and decreased swimming velocity (SV) during 200 m of front crawl …

[PDF][PDF] Stopping timed actions.

D Matzke, LJG Strickland, C Sripada, AS Weigard… - 2021 - psyarxiv.com
The ability to inhibit ongoing responses that suddenly become inappropriate is essential for
safe and effective interaction with an ever-changing and unpredictable world. Response …

Manual asymmetry in a complex coincidence-anticipation task: handedness and gender effects

PC Rodrigues, O Vasconcelos, J Barreiros, R Barbosa - Laterality, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the effects of handedness and gender on manual asymmetry in the
performance of a complex coincidence-anticipation task. Left-handed (N= 63) and right …

Effects of exercise intensity and stimulus speed on coincidence anticipation timing with respect to gender in adolescent badmington players

F Alaei - 2015 - open.metu.edu.tr
Purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise intensity and stimulus speed
on Coincidence Anticipation Timing (CAT) performance with respect to gender in adolescent …

Fast-ball sports experts depend on an inhibitory strategy to reprogram their movement timing

H Nakamoto, S Ikudome, K Yotani, A Maruyama… - Experimental brain …, 2013 - Springer
The purpose of our study was to clarify whether an inhibitory strategy is used for
reprogramming of movement timing by experts in fast-ball sports when they correct their …

Relationships between the magnitude of representational momentum and the spatial and temporal anticipatory judgments of opponent's kicks in taekwondo

K Imanaka, T Sugi, H Nakamoto - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
For successful actions in a fast, dynamic environment such as sports, a quick successful
anticipation of a forthcoming environmental state is essential. However, the perceptual …

Length perception by dynamic touch: The effects of aging and experience

CH Chang, MG Wade, TA Stoffregen… - The Journals of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Two experiments investigated the effects of age and experience on length perception. A total
of 46 participants were asked to wield and estimate the length of unseen rods by adjusting a …