Compare The Executive Function Of Different Sports Players

Executive function is a high cognitive function which related to our daily lives closely. It consists of three sub-functions:inhibition, updating, and shifting. Inhibition function can be divided into three aspects:the ability to inhibit the habitual dominant responses, the ability to inhibit the newly formed dominant responses and inhibition of non-interference ability.The role of aerobic exercise on executive function has been confirmed by many studies. However, it is still not clear whether the executive function of different athletes is different. The purpose of this study is to explore the differences of executive function between the different sport players and ordinary undergraduates. Therefore, this study selected two sports:middle-distance race and table tennis. Which middle-distance race is an atresia sports, table tennis is an open sport. According to the needs of research purposes we selected30college athletes as the exercise group, which belong to the table tennis and middle-distance race. Select15ordinary college students (no sport experience) as a control group. The task of executive function is Stroop task, the Flanker task, the Go/no-go task, the N-back tasks, and More-oddshifting task. All three groups students’executive function were measured by these5tasks.The results showed that in the color word task of Stroop task the shortest correct responses is table tennis players, and there are significant differences between the ordinary university students and table tennis players. There are no difference between table tennis players, middle-distance race players and the ordinary university students on the interference task and non-interference task. There are also no difference between table tennis players, middle-distance race players and the ordinary university students on the go task and no-go task of Go/no-go task. On1-back task of N-back task, there is significant difference among tennis players、middle-distance race players and ordinary university students. There is significant difference between tennis players and ordinary university students on correct response on shifting task of More-oddshifting task.Conclusion:1) There are differences between table tennis players and middle-distance race players in updating. There is no differences between table tennis players and middle-distance race players in the three aspect of inhibition function.2) There are differences between players and ordinary university students in inhibition、 updatingng、 shifting. There are also differences between players and ordinary university students in the three aspect of inhibition function.