TY - JOUR
T1 - Does dynamic balance affect cube mental rotation task in badminton vs. volleyball female players?
AU - Amara, Samiha
AU - Al-Hadabi, Badriya
AU - El-Ashkar, Heba
AU - Gmada, Nabil
AU - Habacha, Hamdi
AU - Mkaouer, Bessem
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/1
Y1 - 2024/1
N2 - Background: Changing from a static to a dynamic balance condition could affect the performance of a cognitive task such as mental rotation. Thus, the main goal of this study is to investigate aspects of visual-spatial cognition between two non-contact sports (i.e., badminton and volleyball) in different upright conditions (i.e., standing position, frontal balance, and sagittal balance). Methods: Thirty-five volunteer female sports and physical education students, fourteen specialists in badminton and twenty-one specialists in volleyball agreed to participate in this study. Each of the assessments was a 3D cube mental rotation task with and/or without balance exercises (i.e., frontal and/or sagittal balance) on a wobble board. Five stimuli were used in the mental rotation task (i.e., 45°, 135°, 180°, 225° and 315° for objected-based cube condition with egocentric transformation) which included pairs of standard and comparison images. Results: The findings indicate that there was a notable decrease (p < 0.001; d = 1.745) in response time in both dynamic balance conditions (i.e., frontal and sagittal balance) compared to standing position condition. In addition, results revealed significant interaction between balance conditions (i.e., frontal and/or sagittal balance) and groups (i.e., badminton and volleyball) in the response time at 225° angle and in the error percentage. Conclusions: In sum, dynamic balance is also an activity that involves mental manipulation of objects in 3D space, which can enhance badminton and volleyball female players’ ability to rotate 3D cube stimuli.
AB - Background: Changing from a static to a dynamic balance condition could affect the performance of a cognitive task such as mental rotation. Thus, the main goal of this study is to investigate aspects of visual-spatial cognition between two non-contact sports (i.e., badminton and volleyball) in different upright conditions (i.e., standing position, frontal balance, and sagittal balance). Methods: Thirty-five volunteer female sports and physical education students, fourteen specialists in badminton and twenty-one specialists in volleyball agreed to participate in this study. Each of the assessments was a 3D cube mental rotation task with and/or without balance exercises (i.e., frontal and/or sagittal balance) on a wobble board. Five stimuli were used in the mental rotation task (i.e., 45°, 135°, 180°, 225° and 315° for objected-based cube condition with egocentric transformation) which included pairs of standard and comparison images. Results: The findings indicate that there was a notable decrease (p < 0.001; d = 1.745) in response time in both dynamic balance conditions (i.e., frontal and sagittal balance) compared to standing position condition. In addition, results revealed significant interaction between balance conditions (i.e., frontal and/or sagittal balance) and groups (i.e., badminton and volleyball) in the response time at 225° angle and in the error percentage. Conclusions: In sum, dynamic balance is also an activity that involves mental manipulation of objects in 3D space, which can enhance badminton and volleyball female players’ ability to rotate 3D cube stimuli.
KW - Badminton
KW - Dynamic balance
KW - Mental rotation
KW - Response time
KW - Volleyball
KW - Volleyball/physiology
KW - Racquet Sports/physiology
KW - Motivation
KW - Humans
KW - Female
KW - Reaction Time
KW - Cognition
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U2 - 10.1186/s40359-024-01589-w
DO - 10.1186/s40359-024-01589-w
M3 - Article
C2 - 38454516
AN - SCOPUS:85187178838
SN - 2050-7283
VL - 12
JO - BMC psychology
JF - BMC psychology
IS - 1
M1 - 131
ER -