Journal
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.909939
Keywords
interpersonal coordination; entrainment; dynamic attention theory; tempo preference; rhythmic acoustic stimuli and cognition; generalized synchronization
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- CONACyT, Mexico
- [CF-263377]
- [CF-610285]
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This study found that an appropriate acoustic environment can improve the interaction between soccer teammates, leading to increased connectivity and scoring rate in male teams. Surprisingly, female teams did not show any improvement under the same conditions. The study also revealed that the acoustic rhythm can modulate participants' attention level, with distinct tempo preferences and gender differences.
Interpersonal coordination requires precise actions concerted in space and time in a self-organized manner. We found, using soccer teams as a testing ground, that a common timeframe provided by adequate acoustic stimuli improves the interplay between teammates. We provide quantitative evidence that the connectivity between teammates and the scoring rate of male soccer teams improve significantly when playing under the influence of an appropriate acoustic environment. Unexpectedly, female teams do not show any improvement under the same experimental conditions. We show by follow-up experiments that the acoustic rhythm modulates the attention level of the participants with a pronounced tempo preference and a marked gender difference in the preferred tempo. These results lead to a consistent explanation in terms of the dynamical system theory, nonlinear resonances, and dynamic attention theory, which may illuminate generic mechanisms of the brain dynamics and may have an impact on the design of novel training strategies in team sports.
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