Age dynamics of reaction indicators to a moving object of young football players aged 11-15

Abstract

This article presents the results of research of the age dynamics of reaction indicators to a moving object of young football players aged 11-15. An important characteristic of football players' game activity is the reaction to a moving object. Speed and accuracy, in this case, largely depends on the mobility and balance of nervous processes. Football players have a high mobility of nervous processes, which, along with the strength of nervous processes, is the result of selection and improvement during training. Analysis of averagesresponse of the moving object (mode 1) across the 40 responses showed a likely decrease in the bias reaction periodbeginning at age 12 and annually up to age 15 (p < 0.05). With regard to delayed reaction, a likely decrease in the response period is observed from 11 to 12 and from 13 to 14 years. Among the tested groups, the most balanced ratio of the period of prejudice and delay reactions were observed in teenage football players of 15 years. It is necessary to stress that the gradual reduction of the period of prejudice and delayed reactions, and the stabilization of the processes of excitation and inhibition precisely in the period from 11 to 15 years.