The Influence of the Mental Rotation Task on Mental Rotation Skills in Badminton  

作　　者：Emily Kamruddin 

机构地区：[1]Kingston University,Kingston upon Thames,United Kingdom

出　　处：《Psychology Research》2022年第11期890-893,共4页心理学研究：英文版

摘　　要：The current study is the first to examine the idea that badminton players may use mental rotation skills to imagine the flight direction of the shuttlecock.The study included badminton experts,near-experts,and non-badminton players and asked them to complete a specially designed mental rotation task,inspired by the methods from Shepard and Metzler(1971).The findings showed no significant group difference between the three expertise groups.This is in support of previous research examining visuo-spatial skills in badminton(Ozel,Larue,&Molinaro,2002;2004;Wang et al.,2015).The current study therefore concluded that badminton players may not have greater mental rotation capacity than other groups.However,these studies found that the badminton players responded quicker on the task than non-badminton players.The current study therefore hypothesised that badminton players might have greater mental rotation awareness,rather than mental rotation capacity,which allows them to respond quicker to visuo-spatial tasks.

关 键 词：mental rotation visuo-spatial skills capacity AWARENESS COGNITION BADMINTON EXPERTISE 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]