How to orchestrate a soccer team: Generalized synchronization promoted by rhythmic acoustic stimuli

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Original languageEnglish
Article number909939
JournalFrontiers in human neuroscience
Volume16
Publication statusPublished - 29 Jul 2022

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.

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    dynamic attention theory, entrainment, generalized synchronization, interpersonal coordination, rhythmic acoustic stimuli and cognition, tempo preference

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How to orchestrate a soccer team: Generalized synchronization promoted by rhythmic acoustic stimuli. / Müller, Manfred A.; Martínez-Guerrero , Antonietta; Corsi-Cabrera, Maria et al.
In: Frontiers in human neuroscience, Vol. 16, 909939, 29.07.2022.

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Müller, MA, Martínez-Guerrero , A, Corsi-Cabrera, M, Effenberg, AO, Friedrich, A, Garcia-Madrid, I, Hornschuh, M, Schmitz, G & Müller, MF 2022, 'How to orchestrate a soccer team: Generalized synchronization promoted by rhythmic acoustic stimuli', Frontiers in human neuroscience, vol. 16, 909939. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.909939
Müller, M. A., Martínez-Guerrero , A., Corsi-Cabrera, M., Effenberg, A. O., Friedrich, A., Garcia-Madrid, I., Hornschuh, M., Schmitz, G., & Müller, M. F. (2022). How to orchestrate a soccer team: Generalized synchronization promoted by rhythmic acoustic stimuli. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 16, Article 909939. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.909939
Müller MA, Martínez-Guerrero A, Corsi-Cabrera M, Effenberg AO, Friedrich A, Garcia-Madrid I et al. How to orchestrate a soccer team: Generalized synchronization promoted by rhythmic acoustic stimuli. Frontiers in human neuroscience. 2022 Jul 29;16:909939. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.909939
Müller, Manfred A. ; Martínez-Guerrero , Antonietta ; Corsi-Cabrera, Maria et al. / How to orchestrate a soccer team : Generalized synchronization promoted by rhythmic acoustic stimuli. In: Frontiers in human neuroscience. 2022 ; Vol. 16.
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