1. Graduate School Research Retreat
29th of November – 30th of November 2010
Graduate School Research Retreat
29th of November – 30th of November 2010
Cluster of Excellence
Cognitive Interaction Technology
Effect of SMR Neurofeedback Training on Golf Putting Performance and Mental Representation
Ming-Yang Cheng1,2, Dirk Koester1 & Thomas Schack1,2,3
1Center of Excellence-Cognitive Interaction Technology - CITEC, Bielefeld
2Bielefeld University, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science
3Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics - CoR-Lab, Bielefeld
Research Questions
An Insight of Motor Learning –
Mental Representation
How novice golfers enhance the golf putting performance as reflected by the mental representation before and after using the sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) neurofeedback training?
Motor Action
(Schack & Mechsner, 2006)
BACs (Basic Action Concepts)
Mental Representation
BACs: The building blocks between movements and perceptual effects in long-term memory
Putting is Mentally Demanding
Simple but most stressful in golf
High level of the executive attention is needed (Kao, Huang, Hung, 2013)
An example of the analytic result by using structural dimensional analysis of mental representation (SDA-M) (Frank, Land, Popp, & Schack, )
Lower Cortical Activity is Related to Adaptive Motor Performance
Design
Lower Activation of Motor Cortex
(Milton et al., 2007)
Flow↑
(Dietrich, 2003, 2004)
Automaticity↑
(Fitts & Posner, 1967)
Executive Attention ↑
(Haslinger et al., 2005)
24 Novices with 8 NFTs
Dependent
Variables
Putting Performance
Mental Representation
Subjective Mental Reports {
SMR Power
Sensorimotor Rhythm (SMR) Can Reflect the Activity of Sensorimotor Cortex
Hypothesis
Putting Performance (“>”: greater)
SMR NFT Group: Post-test > Pre-test
Post-test: SMR NFT Group > Control Group
SMR Power (“>”: higher)
Mental Representation (“>”: more organized)
12-15 Hz oscillation at the sensorimotor cortex
Inversely related to the activity of the sensorimotor cortex (Mann, 1996)
↑SMR ↓Sensorimotor Cortex Activation
Tuning the SMR Power by Using Neurofeedback Training (NFT)
Behavioral Outcomes
(Vernon, 2005)
EEG
A technique in which we train the brain to help improve its functioning through self-regulation of the electroencephalogram (EEG)
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