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Renjie Zeng1,2,3, Haoran Shen2,3, Yaping He2,3
1School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China.
Psychophysiology
|January 26, 2025
Summary
Athletes exhibit superior interoceptive abilities, including sensibility, accuracy, and awareness, compared to non-athletes. Elite athletes show higher interoception than recreational athletes, suggesting it
Area of Science:
- Sports Science
- Neuroscience
- Psychology
Background:
- Sensorimotor training is known to improve interoceptive abilities.
- Athletes engage in extensive physical training, often including sensorimotor components.
- Individual differences in interoception may influence athletic performance.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate interoceptive differences across various athlete levels and sexes.
- To apply a three-dimensional model of interoception (sensibility, accuracy, awareness).
- To explore the relationship between athletic experience and interoceptive traits.
Main Methods:
- Recruited 26 elite athletes, 52 recreational athletes, and 50 college students.
- Utilized the Multidimensional Assessment of Interceptive Awareness (MAIA) and Heartbeat Detecting Task (HDT).
- Measured interoceptive sensibility, accuracy, and awareness.
Main Results:
- Athletes demonstrated significantly higher interoceptive sensibility, accuracy, and awareness than controls.
- Elite athletes outperformed recreational athletes across all interoceptive measures.
- Interoceptive sensibility in elite athletes correlated positively with experience; males showed higher sensibility and awareness than females.
Conclusions:
- Athletic experience and sex are linked to variations in interoceptive abilities.
- Interoceptive ability appears to be an experience-dependent trait crucial for athletic performance.
- Enhancing interoceptive abilities may offer a pathway to improve sports performance.
