Effects of performance anxiety on fine motor skills

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26750245
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIE Michiko 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 研究員 (00722175)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 感情 / 運動スキル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Social-evaluative situations (e.g., public music performance) can elicit performance anxiety and temporarily deteriorate fine motor skills mainly through changes in force output. The present study　examined the neural mechanisms underlying the facilitating effects of performance anxiety on force output. Functional brain imaging data suggested that incoherent activity patterns in the action-observation network mediates the effects of performance anxiety on force output. Social-evaluative situations may induce perceived incoherence between one’s and others’ intentions leading to incoherence in this network, which could ultimately perturb motor output.

Free Research Field

認知神経科学