Motor skill failure or flow-experience? Functional brain asymmetry and brain connectivity in elite and amateur table tennis players

Biological Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 95-105

  Wolf, Sebastian ^a   Brölz, Ellen ^b   Keune, Philipp M ^c,d   Wesa, Benjamin ^a   Hautzinger, Martin ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,e   Strehl, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^e SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; Elite athletes; Flow experience; Functional brain asymmetry; Psycho motor performance; Table tennis; Theta coherence

Indexed keywords

AMATEUR TABLE TENNIS PLAYER; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERT TABLE TENNIS PLAYER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; RACQUET SPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETES; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE NET; RACQUET SPORTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921854709     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.01.007     Document Type: Article

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