Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of Reduced Athletic Performance in Games: Development of Research Applications for Sport Brain Science

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22240070
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: ISHII Motonobu 東京工業大学, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 教授 (20108202)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YASUNORI Kotani 東京工業大学, 社会理工学研究科, 助教 (40240759)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: スポーツ心理学

Research Abstract

The present study aimed to reveal the neural and psychological mechanisms of reduced athletic performance due to competitive stress. We conducted fMRI and behavioral experiments using a tennis service task. In addition, we also developed the inquiry of performance reduction for soft tennis players to establish the psychological model of the performance reduction. Furthermore, we also conducted some research and athletic programs to assist sport scientists or soft tennis players. The result of the present study suggest that key factors of performance reduction could be corruption of visual attention system due to overwhelming positive and negative emotion due to uncontrollability in athletic situations.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Perceptual response and information pick-up strategies within a family of sports (2013)
  • Author(s): Ida H, Fukuhara K, Ishii M, Inoue T
  • Journal Title: Human Movement Science Volume: 32:1 Pages: 106-20
  • DOI: doi:10.1016/j.humov.2012.08.002.
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Recognition of tennis serve performed by a digital player: comparison among polygon, shadow, and stick-figure models. (2012)
  • Author(s): Ida H, Fukuhara K, Ishii M
  • Journal Title: PLoS One Volume: 7(3) Pages: e33879
  • DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033879.
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 我が国のメンタルトレーニングの現状と課題 (2011)
  • Author(s): 石井源信.
  • Journal Title: スポーツメンタルトレーニング指導士活用ハンドブック Pages: 7-12
• [Journal Article] Quantitative relation between server motion and receiver anticipation in tennis: Implications of responses to computer-simulated motions (2011)
  • Author(s): Ida H, Fukuhara K, Sawada M, Ishii M
  • Journal Title: Perception Volume: 40(4) Pages: 1221-36
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 没入型3次元映像呈示におけるテニス打球における知覚 (2010)
  • Author(s): 井田博史,福原和伸,高橋まどか,石井源信,井上哲理
  • Journal Title: スポーツ心理学研究 Volume: 37 Pages: 1-11
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] バトントワリング熟練選手のキャッチングにおける視線行動. (2010)
  • Author(s): 高橋まどか,福原和伸,井田博史,石井源信
  • Journal Title: 人間工学 Volume: 46(1) Pages: 31-36
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] ソフトテニス競技者におけるパフォーマンス崩壊モデルの構築 (2012)
  • Author(s): 島本好平,福原和伸,井田博史,徳田圭行,小谷泰則,石井源信.
  • Organizer: 日本スポーツ心理学会第39回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 金沢
  • Year and Date: 20121100
• [Presentation] Biological motion perception in tennis serves by using computer graphics (2012)
  • Author(s): Fukuhara K, Ida H, Ogata T., Takahashi M, Kotani Y, Ishii M.
  • Organizer: a comparison between successful and unsucessful perfromance, NASPA 2012 Conference, Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, Volume 34, Supplement NASPA 2012 Conference Abstracts, S84
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu,USA.
  • Year and Date: 20120607-09
• [Presentation] Effect of graphic modality of human model on anticipatory behavior in tennis, NASPA 2012 Conference (2012)
  • Author(s): Tokuda T, Kotani Y, Fukuhara K, Ohgami Y, Ida H, Ishii M.
  • Organizer: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, Volume34, Supplement NASPA 2012 Conference Abstracts, S292
  • Place of Presentation: Honolulu,USA.
  • Year and Date: 20120607-09
• [Presentation] Anticipatory cue in tennis: Does 3D display elicit different motor performance from 2D in virtual ball catching? (2011)
  • Author(s): Ida H, Fukuhara K, Takahashi M, Ogata T, Ishii M, Inoue T.
  • Organizer: Progress in Motor Control VIII, Cincinnati
  • Place of Presentation: OH,USA.
  • Year and Date: 20110721-23
• [Presentation] Anticipatory cue in tennis: A spatial occlusion approach using computer graphics. (2011)
  • Author(s): Ida H, Fukuhara K, Ishii M.
  • Organizer: Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 33 (Supplement),S77, 2011 NASPSPA Annual Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Burlington,Vermont,USA
  • Year and Date: 20110609-11
• [Presentation] 運動イメージの応用性と今後の課題 (2011)
  • Author(s): 小谷泰則
  • Organizer: 日本スポーツ心理学会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] Effect of task difficulty on neural systems of right anterior insular cortex (2011)
  • Author(s): Kotani Y., Ohgami Y., Arai J., Kiryu S., Inoue Y.
  • Organizer: 51st Annual Meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research, Psychophysiology, 48, Supplement 1, S78, 2011 (
  • Place of Presentation: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] 右前部島皮質がつなぐ注意と情動の脳内ネットワーク (2010)
  • Author(s): 小谷泰則,大上淑美,高橋まどか,福原和伸,島本好平,井田博史,石井源信
  • Organizer: 日本スポーツ心理学会第37回大会研究発表抄録集2011
  • Place of Presentation: 福山
  • Year and Date: 20101100
• [Book] 現場で生きるスポーツ 心理学 (2012)
  • Author(s): 石井源信
  • Total Pages: 248
  • Publisher: 杏林書院
• [Book] スポーツの心理学 (2011)
  • Author(s): 石井源信
  • Total Pages: 100-106
  • Publisher: 福村出版