The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Movement Science
Volume 15 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1365420
This article is part of the Research Topic The Cognitive Era in Sports Performance: Mental Fatigue, Cognitive Training, and Psychological Ergogenic Substances View all 4 articles
The effects of conscious movement investment on inhibiting a simple response
Provisionally accepted- Department of Human Movement Sciences, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The relationship between a performer's conscious involvement or investment in movement control and monitoring and the ability to inhibit the movement is still unclear. We conducted three experiments to investigate whether a higher inclination for conscious movement investment benefits the inhibition of a simple keypress response. In all experiments, the inclination for conscious movement investment was measured with the Movement-Specific Reinvestment Scale. In Experiment 1, participants performed the go/no-go task and conscious investment was manipulated by directing conscious attention either to the finger movement (i.e., internal focus) or to the resulting motion of the key (i.e., external focus). The results showed that neither the participants' inclination for conscious movement investment, nor the direction of conscious attention affected inhibition performance. In Experiment 2, participants performed the stopsignal task, which is more attention demanding than the go/no-go task. The results showed that participants with a high or low inclination for conscious movement investment did not differ in inhibition performance. In Experiment 3 an ego-depletion procedure was included that limits resources for conscious movement investment. Before and after this ego-depletion procedure, participants performed the stop-signal task. The results showed that participants with a high inclination for conscious movement investment slowed down inhibition when they felt mentally depleted, while no slowing down of inhibition was found among participants who felt less depleted and/or had a low inclination for conscious movement investment. Together, the study provides evidence that increased conscious movement investment is beneficial for movement inhibition. Yet, these effects only emerge against the dynamic background of interacting individual (e.g., inclination for conscious movement investment, available attentional resources) and task constraints (e.g., task difficulty).
Keywords: conscious movement investment, inhibition, ego-depletion, go/no-go task, stopsignal task conscious movement investment, Stopsignal task
Received: 04 Jan 2024; Accepted: 26 Jul 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 You, Weng, Suprianto and van der Kamp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Yihong You, Department of Human Movement Sciences, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.
Wan-Chun Weng