RESPONSE INHIBITION AND STRATEGY REDUCED THE AUDITORY SIMON EFFECT IN FUTSAL ATHLETES
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Response is usually slower and less accurate when task stimulus and required response are incompatible, but this might not be the case in open-skill sport athletes. The study aims to investigate the auditory Simon effect on the reaction time and the response correctness in male futsal athletes. Participants were 17 experienced right-leg-dominant male futsal players of Chulalongkorn University (21± 0.6 years) who refined not only automatic response but also enhanced response inhibition. In this experiment, participants performed the Simon task by stepping on either the left or right target in response to the provided auditory stimulus which was equally presented in compatible and incompatible trials. Participants were instructed to respond to the auditory stimuli as fast and accurately as possible. Participants completed 4 experimental sets, with 10 commands for each set, and 3 minutes rest between each set. Our t-test results revealed there was no statistically significance difference between the reaction time (RT) of two task conditions (p = .122). Likewise, there was no significance difference between movement time (MT) of S-R Com and S-R Incom conditions (p = .063) which demonstrated that futsal athletes could similarly maintain RT, MT, and response correctness in incompatible condition as they did in compatible condition. To sum up, our result confirmed two notions. First, athletes in open-skill sports could utilize their long-term response inhibition experience to minimalize the Simon effect that usually occurs in normal individuals. Second, response strategy could play an important role to define whether the Simon effect should occur at RT or MT duration. Decrease of the Simon effect might be due to enhanced response inhibition ability and response strategy in athletes.
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