Effective anticipation skills in sporting cognition have been shown to facilitate expertise in sports. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has shown to improve motor and cognitive functioning. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the assistive effects of tDCS on the action observer network in both novice and expert gamers during an occlusion task, as well as the related electroencephalographic spectral power response. Twenty-three novice and 23 expert video gamers received either sham or active tDCS with a right parietal anode and left frontal cathode. Only experts demonstrated a significant improvement in predicting ball direction for the overall and early occlusions after tDCS. Spectral power results revealed significant changes in theta, high-gamma, and delta frequencies. The findings indicate that tDCS was able to modulate anticipatory behavior and cortical activity in experts compared with novice participants, suggesting a facilitatory role for tDCS to improve anticipatory effects and assist as a neurocognitive training technique.

体育认知中的有效预测技能已被证明有助于促进体育专业知识。经颅直流电刺激 (tDCS) 已显示可改善运动和认知功能。因此，本研究旨在确定 tDCS 在遮挡任务期间对新手和专家游戏玩家的动作观察者网络的辅助效果，以及相关的脑电图谱功率响应。23 名新手和 23 名专家视频游戏玩家接受了带有右顶叶阳极和左额叶阴极的假或主动 tDCS。只有专家证明了在 tDCS 后预测整体和早期闭塞的球​​方向方面的显着改进。光谱功率结果显示 theta、高伽马和 delta 频率发生了显着变化。