2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Cerebral and cerebellar activations when predicting the movement state and receiving verbal coaching in sports

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22650140
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Physical education
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	YANAGIHARA Dai 東京大学, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 准教授 (90252725)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	HANAKAWA Takashi 国立精神・神経医療研究センター, 部長 (30359830) AOKI Kazuhiro 順天堂大学, スポーツ健康科学部, 准教授 (60424230) KOSHIKAWA Kazunori 順天堂大学, スポーツ健康科学部, 准教授 (00365561)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	小脳 / 運動スキル / 予測 / コーチング / 走り高跳び
Research Abstract	Sports performance involves the ability to predict the consequences of one’s own and others actions in sports scenarios, as well as the ability to perform skilled movements and posture. It has been proposed that the cerebellum has been involved in not only current state estimation but also upcoming state prediction, in cooperation with the cerebral cortex. We investigate neural activities during predicting the consequences of the movements and receiving verbal coaching, using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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