Event related potential measurements of the emotional stroop test in athletes of combat sports

This research will investigate emotional processing of threat-relevant stimuli in athletes of combat sports by means of an ERP study. In this study, color-naming latency on threat-related words will be expected in athletes of combat sports on the Stroop task compared to athletes of non-combat sports; in other words, it is expected that there will be increased interference effect of threat-relevant stimuli on the Stroop task. In this context, participants will be shown neutral and threat-relevant stimuli randomly, and it will be investigated that whether the P300 wave of EEG show differences in response to threat-related words. After EEG data analysis, which were collected from four participants, it is found that ERP responses within the 280–400 ms time window, the amplitude of the total area of threat-related words is larger than neutral words for the group who are active in combat sports.