How to orchestrate a soccer team

Generalized synchronization promoted by rhythmic acoustic stimuli

verfasst von

Manfred A. Müller, Antonietta Martínez-Guerrero , Maria Corsi-Cabrera, Alfred Oliver Effenberg, Armin Friedrich, Ignacia Garcia-Madrid, Matthias Hornschuh, Gerd Schmitz, Markus F. Müller

Abstract

Interpersonal coordination requires precise actions concerted in space and time in a self-organized manner. We found, using soccer teams as a testing ground, that a common timeframe provided by adequate acoustic stimuli improves the interplay between teammates. We provide quantitative evidence that the connectivity between teammates and the scoring rate of male soccer teams improve significantly when playing under the influence of an appropriate acoustic environment. Unexpectedly, female teams do not show any improvement under the same experimental conditions. We show by follow-up experiments that the acoustic rhythm modulates the attention level of the participants with a pronounced tempo preference and a marked gender difference in the preferred tempo. These results lead to a consistent explanation in terms of the dynamical system theory, nonlinear resonances, and dynamic attention theory, which may illuminate generic mechanisms of the brain dynamics and may have an impact on the design of novel training strategies in team sports.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Sportwissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Band

16

ISSN

1662-5161

Publikationsdatum

29.07.2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Neuropsychologie und Physiologische Psychologie, Neurologie, Psychiatrie und psychische Gesundheit, Biologische Psychiatrie, Behaviorale Neurowissenschaften

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 3 – Gute Gesundheit und Wohlergehen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.909939 (Zugang: Offen)