AUTHOR=Faro Heloiana Karoliny Campos , Machado Daniel Gomes da Silva , Bortolotti Henrique , do Nascimento Paulo Henrique Duarte , Moioli Renan Cipriano , Elsangedy Hassan Mohamed , Fontes Eduardo Bodnariuc 

TITLE=Influence of Judo Experience on Neuroelectric Activity During a Selective Attention Task

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2019

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02838

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02838

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Objective: We compared the cognitive performance and neuroelectric responses during a selective attentional task in judo athletes with different levels of expertise.
Methods: Judo black and white belt athletes performed both general and specific fitness tests while simultaneously completing a Stroop color-word test  recorded by 64 electroencephalogram channels.
Results: Cognitive behavioral performance and event-related spectral perturbation present no differences between groups. However, the topographic analysis found different neural source patterns in each group. Judo black belts compared to judo white belts presented a greater peak amplitude of P300 in the middle frontal gyrus and of N200 in the cuneus, but slower latency of P300 in the precuneus.
Conclusion: Despite no difference in cognitive behavioral performance, judo expertise causes a difference in the allocation of attentional and conflict detection neural resources.