Visual Evoked Performance

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Visual Evoked Potential (VEP) is the electrical potentials evoked in the brain by visual stimuli and measure the initial stage of the reaction to visual stimulus (Thomas et al., 1991). Visual Evoked Potential has a lot of functions that can used by people nowadays such as to assess the central visual pathways and act as a tool for studying the cortical mechanisms of visuoperceptual processing. Besides, Visual Evoked Potential also can used in sports vision which is to see whether the performance of sports can be influenced by ability of athletes to maintain visuomotor processing during physical activity compared to non-athletes. Christenson and Winkelstein (1988) also showed that visual performances were found to be significantly better in …show more content…

There are some reports showed that level of athletes are better compared to the non-athletes in term of visual functions and parameter of the visual system. This conclusion can be make from research by Ishigaki and Miyao (1993) on the dynamic visual acuity of 53 athletes and 46 nonathletes, all university students. Based on Tomporowski (2003), there also certain things that remains unclear like the mechanism of exercise-induced effects on visuomotor processing which is due to the several factors including the type of physical activity and participants during the experiment. So, the VEPs is need to validate the responses of athletes as a parameter in classifying the …show more content…

Previously, they were some research about the sports vision, but it is not thoroughly researched yet about the issue of visual perception in athletes (Ishigaki, 1993). Besides, the results of VEPs towards sport performance also not consistent (Özmerdivenli et al., 2005; Ozkaya et al., 2003; Delpont et al., 1991; Taddei, Viggiano & Meccaci, 1991; Thomas, Harden & Rogers, 2005; Magnie et al., 1998). For the use of Visual Evoked Potential towards sports vision, there are several components that we can identified to rule out whether it affects visual performance or not. This review explores the components of VEPs that can rule out whether it affects visual performance and their advantages and