Although neural visual processes play a crucial role in sport, experiments have been restricted to laboratory conditions lacking ecological validity. Therefore, this study examined the feasibility of measuring visual evoked potentials in a sport-specific visuomotor task. A total of 18 international elite young table tennis athletes (mean age 12.5 years) performed a computer-based and a sport-specific visuomotor reaction task in response to radial motion-onset stimuli on a computer screen and table tennis balls played by a ball machine, respectively. A 64-channel electroencephalography system identified the N2 and N2-r motion-onset visual evoked potentials in the motion-sensitive midtemporal visual area. Visual evoked potential amplitudes were highly correlated between conditions (N2 r = .72, N2-r r = .74) although significantly lower in the sport-specific task than in the lab-based task (N2 p < .001, N2-r p < .001). The results suggest that sport-specific visual stimulation is feasible to evoke visual potentials. This emphasizes the investigation of visual processes under more ecologically valid conditions in sport and exercise science.

尽管神经视觉过程在运动中发挥着至关重要的作用，但实验仅限于缺乏生态有效性的实验室条件。因此，本研究探讨了在特定运动视觉运动任务中测量视觉诱发电位的可行性。共有 18 名国际精英年轻乒乓球运动员（平均年龄 12.5 岁）执行了一项基于计算机和特定运动的视觉运动反应任务，以响应计算机屏幕上的径向运动起始刺激和发球机打出的乒乓球， 分别。64 通道脑电图系统识别运动敏感中颞视觉区域的 N2 和 N2-r 运动起始视觉诱发电位。视觉诱发电位振幅在条件之间高度相关（N2 r  = .72，N2-r r  = .74），尽管在运动特定任务中明显低于基于实验室的任务（N2 p  < .001，N2-r p  < .001)。结果表明，特定运动的视觉刺激可以激发视觉潜力。这强调了在运动和运动科学中更生态有效的条件下对视觉过程的研究。