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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Assessment of the Psycho-Emotional State Induced by Open-Skill Sport Activity: An Electroencephalography-Based Study.

Erica Iammarino, Ilaria Marcantoni, Sebastiano Grillo, Laura Burattini

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Erica IammarinoDepartment of Information Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0009-0009-1261-4898
Ilaria MarcantoniDepartment of Information Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8053-3530
Sebastiano GrilloDepartment of Information Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0009-0002-4345-5876
Laura BurattiniDepartment of Information Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9474-7046

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Abstract

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an effective tool for monitoring the psycho-emotional state induced by open-skill sport activities characterized by dynamic environments and unpredictable situations, offering objective insights into mental engagement. This study aims to characterize the psycho-emotional state induced by table tennis sport activity by exploiting EEG-derived biomarkers. The 'Real World Table Tennis' database was analyzed, which includes EEG signals of 25 subjects acquired before, during and after playing table tennis. After preprocessing, 30-s EEG epochs were recursively extracted every 5 s. For each epoch, EEG rhythms were extracted and combined to obtain 37 engagement indexes, defined as ratios of two or more EEG rhythm powers. Median trends of each index were obtained for five cortical regions, and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was applied to assess significant temporal changes. Results show that engagement indexes can effectively characterize psycho-emotional dynamics during table tennis, capturing the transition from resting to game phase in all cortical regions and exhibiting an increasing trend when having beta/alpha in their definition, and a decreasing trend when having high-frequency rhythms in the denominator. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of using engagement indexes to monitor psycho-emotional states induced by open-skill sports and provide a framework for investigating mental engagement over time.

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ElectroencephalographyEmotionsSportsAdultFemaleHumansMalebrain rhythmselectroencephalogrammental involvementsport

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