The Relationship Between Sound and Movement in Sports

    The role of auditory information on perceptual motor processes has gained great interest in recent years. This is is due to the increase in functionality of rehabilitating athletes because of auditory perception and the effect it has on recovery through various modalities. It is believed that the with an increase of auditory input, there is also an increase in motor processing. This would be proven to be true because of the sequencing in which auditory and motor regions of the brain fire. 

    Sonification of sounds enhances the natural ability of athletes. These sounds come from common input like: pattering of feet, observation of auditory input through the environment, the sound that comes from a baseball hitting a glove, etc. These inputs are necessary and also crucial for the listener to adjust their orientation in space and time. The availability of this information allows for an individual to transform their task intrinsic feedback. Based on this system, you can identify where a sound originates, and also what might be the outcome of the initial sound. 

    The sonification of auditory input shows a tremendous feedback system from necessary motor regions of the brain. In could this mean that you can actively train your body for physical stimulation while using only auditory cues? It certainly means that there is a direct relationship between acoustic input motor regions and perception. It might also be possible that you can "train for a a sport without and physical output of motor function, and you can solely train auditory input through variations of acoustic variations. 

The Science of Hearing

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Sources 

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00244/full