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Unconscious information processing of table tennis athletes in a masked priming paradigm: an event-related potentials (ERP) study.
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- Stroboscopic visual training and the brain: a narrative review of neural mechanisms underlying perceptual-cognitive adaptation in interceptive sports.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Athletes demonstrate an advantage in unconscious processing under working-memory load specifically within sport-related domains.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Cognitive load impairs athletes' subliminal processing: behavioral and neural insights.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Unconscious information processing is enhanced among athletes for sports-specific contexts. Whether this enhancement is transferable to general contexts is unknown. This study explored unconscious information processing and brain activity in highly trained table tennis athletes and non-athletes in general contexts. Methods: Twenty table tennis athletes (six females, mean age = 20.38 ± 1.28, mean ± standard error) and 21 aged-matched college students (eight females, mean age = 19.81 ± 1.29) were recruited for this study. Each participant first performed a masked priming task. In this task, a prime stimulus (arrows pointing left or right) was presented, followed by a visual mask (arrows pointing in both directions) and then a target stimulus, the target stimulus consisted of arrows pointing in the same direction as the prime for congruent stimuli or in the opposite direction for incongruent trials, while the P3 component of the event-related potential was simultaneously recorded in the brain. As a control, participants then performed a prime identification task (the subjective threshold test and the objective threshold test) to determine whether they could consciously detect the priming arrows. Reaction times, error rates, P3 latency and P3 peak amplitude were analyzed to examine the unconscious information processing of table tennis athletes in general contexts. Results: Participants responded with the direction of the target arrow and were not consciously aware of the priming stimulus. Athletes responded faster in comparison of non-athletes. Athletes and non-athletes responded faster and committed fewer errors in incongruent Conclusion: Unconscious information processing among table tennis athletes is not prominent in general contexts, but may be limited to the sports-specific context or more complex cognitive tasks.
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