Differential contribution of visual and auditory information to accurately predict the direction and rotational motion of a visual stimulus

Seoung Hoon Park; Seonjin Kim; MinHyuk Kwon; Evangelos A. Christou

doi:10.1139/apnm-2015-0390

Differential contribution of visual and auditory information to accurately predict the direction and rotational motion of a visual stimulus

Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism ◽

10.1139/apnm-2015-0390 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 244-248 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Seoung Hoon Park ◽

Seonjin Kim ◽

MinHyuk Kwon ◽

Evangelos A. Christou

Keyword(s):

Visual Stimulus ◽

Rotational Motion ◽

Visual Information ◽

Auditory Information ◽

Response Accuracy ◽

Table Tennis ◽

Tennis Players ◽

Directional Accuracy ◽

Differential Contribution ◽

Different Levels

Vision and auditory information are critical for perception and to enhance the ability of an individual to respond accurately to a stimulus. However, it is unknown whether visual and auditory information contribute differentially to identify the direction and rotational motion of the stimulus. The purpose of this study was to determine the ability of an individual to accurately predict the direction and rotational motion of the stimulus based on visual and auditory information. In this study, we recruited 9 expert table-tennis players and used table-tennis service as our experimental model. Participants watched recorded services with different levels of visual and auditory information. The goal was to anticipate the direction of the service (left or right) and the rotational motion of service (topspin, sidespin, or cut). We recorded their responses and quantified the following outcomes: (i) directional accuracy and (ii) rotational motion accuracy. The response accuracy was the accurate predictions relative to the total number of trials. The ability of the participants to predict the direction of the service accurately increased with additional visual information but not with auditory information. In contrast, the ability of the participants to predict the rotational motion of the service accurately increased with the addition of auditory information to visual information but not with additional visual information alone. In conclusion, this finding demonstrates that visual information enhances the ability of an individual to accurately predict the direction of the stimulus, whereas additional auditory information enhances the ability of an individual to accurately predict the rotational motion of stimulus.

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Training Level Does Not Affect Auditory Perception of The Magnitude of Ball Spin in Table Tennis

Journal of Human Kinetics ◽

10.1515/hukin-2017-0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 19-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel P. R. Santos ◽

Roberto N. Barbosa ◽

Luiz H. P. Vieira ◽

Paulo R. P. Santiago ◽

Alessandro M. Zagatto ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Auditory Perception ◽

Auditory Information ◽

Training Level ◽

Table Tennis ◽

Training Experience ◽

Tennis Players ◽

Level Of Training ◽

Speed And Accuracy ◽

Fast Spin ◽

Different Levels

AbstractIdentifying the trajectory and spin of the ball with speed and accuracy is critical for good performance in table tennis. The aim of this study was to analyze the ability of table tennis players presenting different levels of training/experience to identify the magnitude of the ball spin from the sound produced when the racket hit the ball. Four types of “forehand” contact sounds were collected in the laboratory, defined as: Fast Spin (spinning ball forward at 140 r/s); Medium Spin (105 r/s); Slow Spin (84 r/s); and Flat Hit (less than 60 r/s). Thirty-four table tennis players of both sexes (24 men and 10 women) aged 18-40 years listened to the sounds and tried to identify the magnitude of the ball spin. The results revealed that in 50.9% of the cases the table tennis players were able to identify the ball spin and the observed number of correct answers (10.2) was significantly higher (χ2 = 270.4, p <0.05) than the number of correct answers that could occur by chance. On the other hand, the results did not show any relationship between the level of training/experience and auditory perception of the ball spin. This indicates that auditory information contributes to identification of the magnitude of the ball spin, however, it also reveals that, in table tennis, the level of training does not interfere with the auditory perception of the ball spin.

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Saccadic eye movements and finger reaction times of table tennis players of different levels

Neuro-Ophthalmology ◽

10.1076/noph.24.2.335.7153 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 335-338 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Matthieu Lenoir ◽

Luc Crevits ◽

Maarten Goethals ◽

Peter Duyck ◽

Joanne Wildenbeest ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Eye Movements ◽

Reaction Times ◽

Saccadic Eye Movements ◽

Table Tennis ◽

Tennis Players ◽

Different Levels

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Differences Between Indexes and Variables in Situation Efficiency of Recreational Table Tennis Players in the Leagues of Different Levels

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport ◽

10.1080/24748668.2012.11868606 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 385-397

Author(s):

Miran Kondrič ◽

Joško Sindik

Keyword(s):

Table Tennis ◽

Tennis Players ◽

Different Levels

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Spatial and Cross-Modal Attention Alter Responses to Unattended Sensory Information in Early Visual and Auditory Human Cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology ◽

10.1152/jn.00580.2007 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 98 (4) ◽

pp. 2399-2413 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Vivian M. Ciaramitaro ◽

Giedrius T. Buračas ◽

Geoffrey M. Boynton

Keyword(s):

Spatial Attention ◽

Auditory Stimulus ◽

Visual Stimulus ◽

Visual Information ◽

Visual Stimuli ◽

Sensory Information ◽

Visual Area ◽

Auditory Stimuli ◽

Auditory Information ◽

Brain Responses

Attending to a visual or auditory stimulus often requires irrelevant information to be filtered out, both within the modality attended and in other modalities. For example, attentively listening to a phone conversation can diminish our ability to detect visual events. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain responses to visual and auditory stimuli while subjects attended visual or auditory information. Although early cortical areas are traditionally considered unimodal, we found that brain responses to the same ignored information depended on the modality attended. In early visual area V1, responses to ignored visual stimuli were weaker when attending to another visual stimulus, compared with attending to an auditory stimulus. The opposite was true in more central visual area MT+, where responses to ignored visual stimuli were weaker when attending to an auditory stimulus. Furthermore, fMRI responses to the same ignored visual information depended on the location of the auditory stimulus, with stronger responses when the attended auditory stimulus shared the same side of space as the ignored visual stimulus. In early auditory cortex, responses to ignored auditory stimuli were weaker when attending a visual stimulus. A simple parameterization of our data can describe the effects of redirecting attention across space within the same modality (spatial attention) or across modalities (cross-modal attention), and the influence of spatial attention across modalities (cross-modal spatial attention). Our results suggest that the representation of unattended information depends on whether attention is directed to another stimulus in the same modality or the same region of space.

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The influence of auditory information on performance in table tennis

European Journal of Human Movement ◽

10.21134/eurjhm.2020.45.7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 62-76

Author(s):

Katharina Petri ◽

Timon Schmidt ◽

Kerstin Witte

Keyword(s):

Visual Information ◽

Auditory Information ◽

Target Area ◽

Table Tennis ◽

Environmental Sounds ◽

Auditory Cues ◽

In Situ Studies ◽

Noise Cancelling ◽

Almost All

It is well-known that visual information is essential for anticipation in table tennis but it not clarified whether auditory cues are also used. Therefore, we performed two in-situ studies, in which novices (study A) and advanced players (study B) responded to strokes of a real opponent or a ball machine by returning with forehand counters (study A) and forehand top spins (study B) to a given target area on the table. We assessed the parameters “hit quality” and “subjective effort”. In study A, we provided four conditions: normal, a noise-cancelling headphone and earplugs to dampen auditory information, other noise-cancelling headphones and earplugs to remove almost all environmental sounds, and the same head-phones with additional bright noise to remove all sounds. In study B, we performed three tests (irregular play and regular play with an opponent and response to regular balls of a ball machine) under two conditions: normal and noise-cancelling headphones with the additional bright noise. In both studies, no significant differences between all conditions for “hit quality” and “subjective effort” (all p>0.05) were found. We conclude that auditory information, as well as their volume, have no influence on the hit quality in table tennis for novices and advanced players.

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