ArticleHuman brain mapping2020
Nonlinear engagement of action observation network underlying action anticipation in players with different levels of expertise.
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- Predictive Processing in Sport and Exercise Science: A Scoping Review and Theoretical Overview.Sports medicine - open · 2026Review
- Neural activation patterns underlying football decision-making: evidence for the neural proficiency hypothesis.Brain imaging and behavior · 2026Article
- How game score shapes anticipatory swing decisions in baseball players: a functional MRI study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Stroboscopic visual training and the brain: a narrative review of neural mechanisms underlying perceptual-cognitive adaptation in interceptive sports.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Reading out bodily cues to predict interactions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- EEG theta and alpha oscillations during tactical decision-making: An examination of the neural efficiency hypothesis in volleyball.PloS one · 2025Article
- Observing walking with asymmetric treadmill belt speeds induces stronger activation of the action observation network than normal walking.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Impacts of Kinematic Information on Action Anticipation and the Related Neurophysiological Associations in Volleyball Experts.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Trait representation of embodied cognition in dancers pivoting on the extended mirror neuron system: a resting-state fMRI study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Decoding motor expertise from fine-tuned oscillatory network organization.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Nonlinear engagement of action observation network underlying action anticipation in players with different levels of expertise.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
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Abstract
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 incorrect anticipations. Therefore, we asked novice, intermediate, and skilled baseball batters (N, IB, and SB) to anticipate their swing decisions in response to pitching videos of a strike or ball, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Behavioral results confirmed the effect of expertise that is generally shown in a linear fashion. Imaging results instead revealed a nonlinear relationship between expertise level and the evoked response amplitude of nodes within the action observation network. The relationship was best captured by an inverted U-shaped quadratic response profile across the three groups such that IB exhibited higher activation than did both SB and N. These empirical findings extend the framework of predictive coding as well as of neural efficiency in anticipating the action of others, and they might be associated with the underlying process to interpret the goal of the observed action and prepare one's own response. Furthermore, the right anterior cerebellum showed different levels of activation for correct and incorrect anticipations in all groups, adding novel evidence of its subtle involvement in anticipation processes irrespective of expertise status.
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