2019 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 87-100
In order to examine how the voluntary inspiration–expiration circle affect the effects of visual attention on target detection task, we conducted two experiment in which observers attended to the target location or non target location in terms of the cost–benefit method (Posner, 1980). In the experiments, observers performed target detection task during or after inspiration, or expiration. In the first experiment, a visual cue was presented to attract endogenous visual attention, or exogenous visual attention, while in the second experiment, visual cues were presented to attract both endogenous and exogenous attention. We found advantages of inspiration with the exogenous attention task, but advantages of expiration with the endogenous attention task. We discussed the implications of these results for appropriate respiratory control in the competitive sports.
