THEORETICAL DISCUSSION ON EYE MOVEMENT DIFFERENCES IN SERVICE ANTICIPATION OF COLLEGE TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS UNDER DIFFERENT EMOTIONS
Keywords:
College table tennis players, Service anticipation, Emotion, Eye movement characteristics, Cognitive mechanism, Visual searchAbstract
Table tennis demands rapid visual processing and precise predictive judgment, where emotional fluctuations significantly interfere with cognitive processes such as attention allocation and information extraction. College table tennis athletes, as a key transitional group, exhibit distinct eye movement patterns in service anticipation under different emotional states. This study adopts a theoretical analysis method to systematically explore the eye movement differences and internal cognitive mechanisms of college table tennis players during service anticipation under positive and negative emotions, and further reveals the chain interaction relationship among emotion, eye movement and service anticipation. The results show that positive emotions promote efficient visual search characterized by concentrated fixation and reasonable saccade, improving anticipation accuracy; negative emotions trigger conservative search strategies with scattered attention and prolonged processing time, reducing anticipation efficiency. Athletic experience and mental skills play a moderating role in the emotion-anticipation relationship, and college athletes are more vulnerable to negative emotional interference. In conclusion, emotions reshape eye movement features to determine the quality of service information sampling, forming a chain mediation effect. Targeted emotional regulation and visual search training can effectively optimize college athletes’ service anticipation performance.References
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