Visual Choice Reaction Timein Schoolchildren Aged 12-14 Years Old. Comparison between Trained and Untrained Children
Abstract
The purpose of the work was to study if there is any difference in visual choice reaction time [VCRT] between the children who practice sports and non-sporting children, and if the performance depends on the gender and design of the testing: continuous [50 and 100 trials] versus sequential [10 trials each sequence, with 30 sec. rest between sequences].
The 20 non-sporting children [10 girls and 10 boys] were tested only continuously but the 20 sporting ones [10 girls and 10 boys] were tested both continuously and sequentially. While testing the subjects were using their preferred hand.
The results support the conclusion that while there is no difference between girls and boys, VCRT in sporting children is significantly better, than in non-sporting ones, both in girls [657.84 ± 70.02 vs 760.77 ± 112.82 ms; p<0.05 ] and boys [698.67 ± 65.27 vs 833.09 ± 102.36 ms; p<0.01]. On the other hand, in athletes the results obtained within the 100 trials sequential testing were significantly better than in the continuous testing.
References
[2] Demeter A. Bazele fiziologice si biochimice ale calitatilor motrice. Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism; 1981, pp. 37-40.
[3] Gidu D. Timpul de reactievizual cu alegere la handbalistiiîncepatori.Sesiunea de ReferatesiComunicariStiintifice a CadrelorDidactice.2000April 22. Constanta.
[4] Harbin G, Durst L, Harbin, D. Evaluation of oculomotor response in relationship to sport performance. Med. Sci. Sp. and Ex. 1989; 21(3): 258-262.
[5] McMorris T, Beazeley A. Performance of experienced and inexperienced soccer players on soccer specific tests of recall, visual search and decision-making. J.of Hum. Mov. Stud. 1997; 33:1-13.
[6] McMorrisT, GraidonJ. The effect of exercise on the decision-making performance of experienced and inexperienced soccer players. Res. Quarterly for Ex. and Sp. 1996; 67(1):109-114.
[7] Mitra G,Mogos A.Dezvoltareacalitatilormotrice.Bucharest:Editura Sport-Turism; 1977. pp. 77-82.
[8] Muşat G, Petcu D, Popa C, Ochiuleţ D. Identification standard and nonstandard exercises for multilateral physical training to soccer players beginners.Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health.2014; 14(2): 487-494.
[9] Proteau L, Alain G. La difference de pente du temps de reaction au choix en fonction du mode de presentation des stimuli: Le role des effets de sequence. Rev. Can. de Psych. 1982; 36(4): 576-585.
[10] Proteau L. La difference de temps de reaction au choixobservee pour chaquepaire stimulus-response dansunetache a huit evenements equiprobables. Rev. Can. de Psych. 1985; 39(3): 440-448.
[11] Proteau L, Dionne L. Faire un choix entre deux directions et choisir entre produireou non une response: est-ceuneseule meme tache?.Chaiers de Psych. Cog. 1982; 2(1): 19-29.
[12] Proteau L, Dugas G.Strategie de decision d’unegrupe de jouers de basket-ball inter –universitaire. Can.J.Appl.Spt.Sci. 1982; 7(2):127-133.
Copyright (c) 2020 LUMEN Proceedings
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© LUMEN Proceedings Series 2022 . The LUMEN Proceedings Open Access volumes are distributed under the terms of the 