INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE ON CHOICE REACTION TIME IN SPORTS EXPERTS : THE MEDIATING ROLE OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION
INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE ON CHOICE REACTION TIME IN SPORTS EXPERTS : THE MEDIATING ROLE OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION
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体育锻炼对体育专家选择反应时间的影响:资源分配的中介作用
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2003
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D. Delignières
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D. Delignières
This experiment was performed in the aim of analyzing the influence of physical exertion on decisional processing in sports experts. 40 subjects were involved in the experiment. The first group (N=20) was composed of fencers and fencing masters, the second (N=20) of subjects who practised sport but who had no expertise in decisional sports. The two groups did not differ in physical condition. While pedalling on a cycloergometer at relative powers corresponding to 20, 40, 60 and 80% of their own maximal aerobic power, the subjects had to perform two choice reaction time tasks (2-RT and 4-RT). Performance scores were collected, and for all conditions, subjects were asked to assess the difficulty of the reaction time task. The results showed, for the experts, a monotonic increase in performance, as physical exertion increased. On the contrary, the performances of the non-expert group deteriorated as exertion increased. The error rate remained stable for each group over all conditions. Finally, the experts assessed tasks as more difficult than the non-experts, especially at high levels of exertion. These results showed that the improvement of the experts' performances in decision tasks under high physical exertion was related to an additional resource investment. Key-words: Physical exertion, information processing, resource allocation, perceived difficulty.