Elucidation of expertise in human movement in terms of theory of non-linear dynamical systems

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26882038
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Takachiho University
• Principal Investigator: Suzuki Hiroo 高千穂大学, 人間科学部, 助教 (00734758)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 運動学習 / 運動制御 / 熟達化 / 時間的制約

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to investigate what it means to be skilled in the domain of human movement. I investigated continuous switching movements, in which novice and advanced players continuously switched between two movement patterns, each of which involved hitting a ball moving in one of two directions, under six temporal constraint conditions, during a table tennis rally. The results indicate that advanced players were better than novice players at switching between ball directions under temporal constraints. However, even advanced players were subject to a boundary regarding the temporal conditions under which they could perform well at the switching task. Hence, human skill at a movement task involves overcoming this boundary, which defines the skill level of each player.

Free Research Field

スポーツ心理学