Analysis of cognitive and anticipated properties and motor control properties for the capture of moving object

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K11472
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 59020:Sports sciences-related
• Research Institution: Kokushikan University
• Principal Investigator: TAKEICHI MASARU 国士舘大学, 政経学部, 教授 (30265962)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 新井 健之 高千穂大学, 人間科学部, 教授 (20397095)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 認知特性 / 予測特性 / 運動制御 / 運動物体

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the series of cognitive, anticipation, and motor control processes in the capture movement, this study analyzed the properties of each phase.　In addition to male university students, the subjects were sixth-grade students (male and female), physically handicapped persons, and female university students, and their respective cognitive and anticipated properties were examined. We also clarified gender differences in cognitive and anticipated properties among elementary school students and university students. The possibility that the anticipated position in the task of anticipating the position of a moving object after occluded may change depending on the number of trials was observed, and the gender differences in this were examined.
In motor control phase, we conducted a task in which participants moved their upper limbs in synchronization with the arrival position and time of a moving object, and clarified the anticipated properties of the task.

Free Research Field

体育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

スポーツでは動く物体（ボール）に対して、移動の様子を見る（認知）、到達位置や時刻を予測する（予測）、そして動作する（運動制御）のプロセスを経て捕球や打球（捕捉動作）する。本研究では、この各局面の特性を分離して解析し、捕捉動作のパフォーマンスへの影響について検討する。これらは新たな研究手法として今後の研究の発展に寄与すると考えられる。
また、新たなトレーニング方法の開発にも応用が可能であり、それらをもとにスポーツ選手のみでなく、発育発達期の子供から高齢者に対する身体教育、機能回復訓練やリハビリテーションにも幅広い応用が期待される。