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Summary

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Professional basketball players show enhanced attentional allocation to predictive sports stimuli compared to video gamers and individual sports athletes. This suggests superior top-down attention in athletes processing meaningful visual cues.

Keywords:

Context EEG Graph theory P3b Professional athletes Video gamers

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Sports Science

Background:

Predictive contextual processing is crucial for athletes' performance.
Understanding attentional mechanisms in athletes versus non-athletes is vital.
The role of meaningful stimuli in modulating attention requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of abstract vs. real-life sports images on predictive processing.
To compare attentional allocation in professional basketball players (BP), individual sports athletes (IA), and video gamers (VG).
To explore neural network differences during predictive visual stimulus processing.

Main Methods:

Electroencephalography (EEG) recorded from three groups: BP, IA, and VG.
Presentation of abstract (triangles) and real-life (basketball player) visual stimuli.
Analysis of event-related potentials (P3b amplitudes) and functional connectivity during predictive sequences.

Main Results:

Basketball players exhibited greater P3b amplitude increases with real-life sports images compared to video gamers.
Increased frontal attentional network modularity and connectivity observed in BP and VG versus IA during predictive processing.
Basketball players demonstrated enhanced top-down attentional allocation for predictive visual stimuli.

Conclusions:

Professional basketball players display superior predictive contextual processing, particularly with sports-related imagery.
Top-down attentional mechanisms are more pronounced in athletes with expertise in dynamic, predictive environments.
Findings highlight the specialized neural adaptations in athletes for processing predictive visual information.