BATTING AND BUTTON-PRESS REACTION TIME IN PRIMARY, JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL PLAYERS

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  • Masahiro Shinya
  • Lisa Komuro
  • Hirofumi Kobayashi
  • Hiroki Obata
  • Kimitaka Nakazawa

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Go/Nogo reaction time##common.commaListSeparator## development

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The focus of this study was how baseball players acquire rapid visuo-motor processing during developmental stages. We compared simple and Go/Nogo reaction times in a button-press task and a swing-a-bat task between different age groups of teenage baseball players. Though reaction time, swing time and total reaction time were shorter in the older group, baseball-specific visuo-motor skills could not be investigated by our experiment. These results indicate that the general neural foundations underlying baseball performance develop over the school years.

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2016-05-05

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33 International Conference of Biomechanics in Sports (2015)

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Coaching and Sports Activities

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