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Auditory cues in table tennis: Evaluating their effectiveness compared to visual information.

Li-Yin Lin¹, Yeou-Teh Liu¹

¹Department of Sport and Kinesiology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 116, Taiwan.

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

|March 21, 2025

Summary

Elite table tennis players use sound cues for striking, but removing vision impacts movement timing and accuracy. Auditory information aids in identifying ball features, though it

Keywords:

Acoustic event Auditory perception Movement timing Perception and action Racket sports Visual perception

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Area of Science:

Sports Science
Biomechanics
Auditory Perception

Background:

Table tennis relies on ball-racket impact sounds for rotational cues.
The specific role of environmental auditory information in striking performance remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the contribution of auditory cues to table tennis striking performance.
To explore how auditory information influences the perception-action coupling in elite players.

Main Methods:

Eleven elite varsity players performed forehand push and topspin-drive strokes under three conditions: normal, visual-only, and auditory-only.
Analysis included success rates, in-bounds rates, kinematics, and movement time lags.
Time intervals between impact sounds were analyzed for different ball types.

Main Results:

Players could perform strokes using auditory cues alone, identifying ball types.
Auditory deprivation led to delayed movement initiation, reduced movement time/distance, and increased variability in movement time lags.
Depriving players of auditory information affected racket and ball speed, and perception-action coupling.

Conclusions:

Auditory information provides distinguishable cues for table tennis strokes, aiding in spatial outcome identification.
While not dominant, auditory cues are important for perception-action coupling in elite table tennis.
Eliminating auditory input negatively impacts movement execution and timing.