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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Sports Science

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  • Long-term training, like in table tennis, induces neural plasticity in visual cognitive processing areas.
  • Table tennis players process information efficiently, but the timing of their spatial processing advantage needs clarification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the spatial cognitive processing styles of table tennis players.
  • To characterize the neural activity associated with spatial processing in table tennis athletes.

Main Methods:

  • 28 college students (control) and 20 table tennis players completed spatial cognitive tasks.
  • Event-related potentials (ERP) and beta-band synergistic activity were recorded and analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Table tennis players outperformed the control group behaviorally.
  • Lower N1 amplitude and higher P2/P3 amplitudes were observed in table tennis players.
  • Significant synergistic activity in the beta-band was found in table tennis players.

Conclusions:

  • Table tennis players demonstrate enhanced attentional resource deployment and cognitive control.
  • They utilize stored motor experience for hierarchical predictive coding in spatial information processing.