A Study of Individual and Team Game Players with Respect to Visual and Auditory Reaction Time

DOI

10.2991/yishpess-cois-18.2018.161How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reaction time, visual, auditory, players

Abstract

In sports, there are many occasions where speed of reaction and speed of movement are very vital factors. Individuals who react quicker and move faster have an obvious advantage over those who are slow. Reaction time can be defined as the elapsed interval between presentation times of a stimulus, to the initiation of a response. This is called response latency and it is the time between one set of a stimulus to the initiation of an overt response. Reaction time is of great importance in the field of sports, because in all competitions especially higher ones, races and events are won or lost by fraction of a second. Putting the importance of reaction time into consideration, this investigation was undertaken to measure the ART & VRT of an individual and team game players; to find out differences between the sportsmen of the team game and the individual game with respect to visual and auditory disjunctive time. In this study, it was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference between the sportsmen of individual game and team game on visual disjunctive reaction time; and there would be no significant difference between sportsmen of individual games and team games on auditory disjunctive reaction time. This study was conducted using 200 top level sportsmen of eleven games. To compare the sportsmen on the basis of this sample, they were divided into two groups Those who participated in athletics, archery, cycling, gymnastics, swimming, weight lifting, and wrestling were included in the sports of individual pursuits; whereas the players of basketball, hockey, volleyball and Kabaddi were included in the group of team players on the basis of these two categories. The tool used in this study is Electronic Chronoscope. It was evidenced that there is a significant sex difference between male & female players with regard to VTR, both in the individual game as well as in team game (t=3.99p<.01) (t=4.72<0.1). In this study, it was concluded that; team games players have faster VRT as compared to individual event players, while on ART, individual players are slower when compared to team game players.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Haricharan Gajbhiye
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Seminar on Health, Physical Education, and Sport Science (YISHPESS 2018) and 1st Conference on Interdisciplinary Approach in Sports (CoIS 2018)
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