The current study examines the relationships between hitters’ neural activity and their in-game hitting performance. Collegiate baseball players completed a computerized video task assessing whether thrown pitches were balls or strikes while their neural activity was recorded. In addition, each player’s hitting statistics were collected for the following baseball season. Results showed that neural activity during the computerized task was associated with in-game hitting performance, even after accounting for other individual difference variables. These findings indicate that players’ neural activity measured in a laboratory environment shows a translational relationship with in-game hitting performance over time. Neural activity provides a more objective analysis of players’ ongoing self-regulatory processes during hitting and a better understanding of the cognitive processes associated with hitting performance. Self-regulatory cognitive control is adaptable and trainable, and this research advances the measurement of cognitive variables related with in-game hitting performance in baseball.

目前的研究探讨了击球手的神经活动与其比赛中击球表现之间的关系。大学棒球运动员完成了一项计算机视频任务，评估投出的投球是球还是好球，同时记录他们的神经活动。此外，还收集了接下来的棒球赛季中每位球员的击球统计数据。结果表明，即使在考虑了其他个体差异变量之后，计算机化任务期间的神经活动也与游戏中的击球表现相关。这些发现表明，在实验室环境中测量的玩家的神经活动随着时间的推移显示出与游戏中的击球表现之间的转化关系。神经活动可以更客观地分析运动员在击球过程中持续的自我调节过程，并更好地理解与击球表现相关的认知过程。自我调节认知控制具有适应性和可训练性，这项研究推进了与棒球比赛中击球表现相关的认知变量的测量。