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Neuropsychological functions of nonverbal hand movements and gestures during sports
| العنوان: | Neuropsychological functions of nonverbal hand movements and gestures during sports |
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| المؤلفون: | Neumann, N., Drewes, V., Konstantinidis, I., Reinecke, K. H. C., Lausberg, H., Helmich, I. |
| المصدر: | Journal of Cognitive Psychology; April 2022, Vol. 34 Issue: 3 p362-374, 13p |
| مستخلص: | ABSTRACTEmotional body-distant gestures are a prominent feature of winning athletes. Because negative emotions have been associated to increased self-touch behaviour, we investigated the hypothesis that athletes change from a more body-distant nonverbal hand movement behaviour when winning to a body-focused behaviour when losing. Nonverbal hand movements of professional right-handed tennis athletes were video-taped during competition and analyzed by certified raters using the NEUROpsychological GESture(NEUROGES)System. The results showed that losing athletes increase their irregular, on body,and phasic on bodyhand movements, particularly with the left hand. Emotion / attitude risegestures with the right hand characterised winning athletes. The data suggest that the nonverbal hand movements of athletes serve different neuropsychological functions. Winners nonverbally express their positive feelings by body-distant gestures but change towards their own body to regulate stress when losing.HighlightsIrregular, on body,and phasic on bodyhand movements serve self-regulation when losing during competitionAthletes express positive emotions by emotion / attitude risegesturesNonverbal expression of emotions underlie hemispherically lateralised processes |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Supplemental Index |
| تدمد: | 20445911 2044592X |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/20445911.2021.1998075 |