Neural Correlates of Shooting Sports Performance: A Systematic Review on Neural Efficiency Hypothesis

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Lilian C. X.
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Russo, Marcos T., Ribeiro, Pedro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Educação Física
• Texto Completo: https://revistadeeducacaofisica.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/2915
• topic: neuroscience; target shooting; high-performance sports; brain mapping; motor behavior; neuroscience; target shooting; high-performance sports; brain mapping; motor behavior

Introduction: Shooting is an ancient sport modality and requires mental, emotional, and cognitive aptitudes. Shooting is an ancient sport that requires mental, emotional, and cognitive skills of the practitioner. Objective: In this comprehensive systematic review we sought to examine the hypothesis of neural efficiency in shooting sports (rifle, pistol and archery) related to performance. Methods: We perform the search in PubMed database using the terms “brain and shooting”. After applied the study criteria, 28 articles participated in this review. Results and Discussion: There are consistent differences between expert and novice shooters in cortical activity related to shooting performance, which imply that shooting expertise leads to brain adjustments to safe energy during the task and correlates with performance. The hemispheric laterality implies that experts present high attentional focus degree. Conclusion: The literature shows that there are specific differences on expert and novice shooters’ mapping brain during shooting tasks. Moreover, increasing in Alpha frequency at aiming period and pulling the trigger moment at left temporal (T3) together with stability at right temporal (T4) sites relates to performance. Furter findings were discussed.