Influence of Judo Experience on Neuroelectric Activity During a Selective Attention Task

Heloiana Karoliny Campos Faro; Daniel Gomes da Silva Machado; Henrique Bortolotti; Paulo Henrique Duarte do Nascimento; Renan Cipriano Moioli; Hassan Mohamed Elsangedy; Eduardo Bodnariuc Fontes

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02838

Influence of Judo Experience on Neuroelectric Activity During a Selective Attention Task

Front Psychol. 2020 Jan 9:10:2838. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02838. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Heloiana Karoliny Campos Faro¹, Daniel Gomes da Silva Machado², Henrique Bortolotti¹, Paulo Henrique Duarte do Nascimento¹, Renan Cipriano Moioli^{3

4}, Hassan Mohamed Elsangedy¹, Eduardo Bodnariuc Fontes¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physical Education, NEUROex - Research Group in Physical Activity, Cognition and Behavior, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
² Graduate Program in Collective Health, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
³ Graduate Program in Neuroengineering, Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience, Santos Dumont Institute, Macaíba, Brazil.
⁴ Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Digital Metropolis Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.

Abstract

Objective: We compared the cognitive performance and neuroelectric responses during a selective attentional task in judo athletes with different levels of expertise.

Methods: Judo black and white belt athletes performed both general and specific fitness tests while simultaneously completing a Stroop color-word test recorded by 64 electroencephalogram channels.

Results: Cognitive behavioral performance and event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) present no differences between groups. However, the topographic analysis found different neural source patterns in each group. Judo black belts compared to judo white belts presented a greater peak amplitude of P300 in the middle frontal gyrus and of N200 in the cuneus, but slower latency of P300 in the precuneus.

Conclusion: Despite no difference in cognitive behavioral performance, judo expertise causes a difference in the allocation of attentional and conflict detection neural resources.

Keywords: attention-inhibition; brain oscillations; electroencephalogram; event-related potentials; event-related spectral potential; executive function; sport expertise.