Herbert Ugrinowitsch

@ufmg.br

Sports Department
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais



              

https://researchid.co/herbert

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Behavioral Neuroscience, General Health Professions

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Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • Social Network Analysis: Understanding Volleyball Dynamics through Match Opponents
    Marcos Henrique do Nascimento, Henrique de Oliveira Castro, Augusto Cézar Rodrigues Rocha, Auro Barreiros Freire, Gustavo Ferreira Pedrosa, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Lucas Savassi Figueiredo, Lorenzo Laporta, and Gustavo De Conti Teixeira Costa
    MDPI AG
    The current investigation scrutinized the strategic approaches employed by the top four teams in the Brazilian Men’s Volleyball Superliga, according to the match’s opponent. The study encompasses the analysis of 22 matches, involving teams ranked first through fourth, competing against each of the 12 teams participating in the 21–22 season of the Brazilian Men’s Volleyball Superliga, including one home and one away match for each team. Social network analysis facilitated the identification of the interconnections and particularities among all variables, offering a comprehensive perspective. The findings unveiled that during the offensive phase, the second-, third-, and fourth-ranked teams consistently exhibited higher eigenvector values, irrespective of the opposing team, notably when the middle-blocker positioned themselves in front and near the setter. Conversely, the championship-winning team displayed variations in offensive tactics. The team securing the second position demonstrated alterations in setting placement, whereas the other teams executed settings aimed at zones 3 and 4. Additionally, the initial setter’s position at the commencement of a rally displayed varying eigenvector values based on the opponent, indicating team rotation as a performance determinant. Thus, barring the finalist team, the performance of the remaining teams is intricately intertwined with the individual characteristics of players.

  • DETERMINANT FACTORS OF ATTACK EFFICACY IN HIGH-LEVEL MEN’S VOLLEYBALL: WHAT DOES DISTINGUISH THE MIDDLE-ATTACKER PERFORMANCE?
    Gustavo De Conti Teixeira Costa, Isabel Mesquita, Patrícia Coutinho, Breno Ferreira de Britto Evangelista, Michel Milistetd, Auro Barreiros Freire, Arthur Moreira Ferreira, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb
    This study aimed to identify determinant factors of attack efficacy considering the effects of reception, attack tempo, attack performance, setting type and attack type. Firstly, 19,454 offensive actions of complex I of the Brazilian Volleyball Men’s Super League were considered and analyzed separately from the middle, wing, and opposite attacker standpoints. The middle attack was the most effective, so the 5,259 offensive actions were analyzed considering the setting type and the attack direction. The independent variables were the quality of reception, type and direction of attack, whereas attack performance was the dependent variable. We found that the middle attack efficacy was related to excellent receptions, right tempo and left tempo (near the setter), and power attack. The results can afford coaches with the key information for better training plan designs and preparation for competition.

  • Combination of narrow and wide bandwidth knowledge of performance in the acquisition of a complex sports motor skill
    Madson Pereira Cruz, Rodolfo Novellino Benda, Cíntia de Oliveira Matos, Crislaine Rangel Couto, Leandro Nogueira Dutra, Cícero Luciano Alves Costa, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Elsevier BV

  • Does Knowledge of Results Affect Motor Skill Learning and Adaptation in Interception-Like Tasks?
    Cláudio Manoel Ferreira Leite, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, and Crislaine Rangel Couto
    Human Kinetics
    Knowledge of results (KR), particularly its informational role, has often been regarded as redundant for learning interception-like tasks, such as coincidence–anticipation timing tasks. However, it is possible that the KR’s guiding effect might be detrimental to motor adaptation, instead of only redundant, leading to a dependency on KR and steering the sensorimotor system away from relevant information of the task. In this study, we aimed to investigate KR’s effect on learning a coincidence–anticipation timing tasks and on the adaptation to unpredictable perturbations. Two groups of participants practiced a coincidence–anticipation timing tasks with or without KR on 1 day and underwent testing the next day for learning (Retention test) and for adaptation to unpredictable perturbations (Exposure phase). Both groups exhibited similar learning results but failed to adapt to the perturbations, contradicting the assumption of negative guidance effects of KR and the positive effects of relying solely on intrinsic information (no KR). These findings suggest that motor adaptation may require specific information during the acquisition process, highlighting for more systematic analyses to understand this phenomenon better. Such insights could have practical implications in contexts like sports and rehabilitation, by providing learners with appropriate information for acquiring adaptive internal representations of tasks.

  • Effect of Transcranial direct current stimulation of the Primary motor Cortex and cerebellum on motor control and learning of geometric drawing tasks with varied cognitive demands
    Anderson Nascimento Guimarães, Alessandra Beggiato Porto, Flavio Junior Guidotti, Norberto Soca Bazo, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, and Victor Hugo Alves Okazaki
    Elsevier BV

  • Motor Competence and Difficulty of Self-Set Goals on Motor Learning
    Brenner Ottero, Rafael Carvalho, Lívia Penido, Cíntia Matos, Rita Cordovil, Carlos Luz, Luis P. Rodrigues, Márcia Tanure, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Informa UK Limited
    Motor competence is associated with the perceived difficulty of a task. This study hypothesized that children with higher motor competence perceive certain tasks as less challenging than their peers with lower motor competence. As a result, children with higher motor competence were expected to set more ambitious goals for themselves while learning a new task compared to children with lower motor competence. To investigate the relationship between motor competence and the difficulty of self-set goals during motor learning, we included 48 children aged between eight and ten years, stratified into terciles; our analysis focused on 32 children from the highest and lowest terciles. The experimental task required participants to throw a 100 g bean bag toward a target located 3 meters away. Children were instructed to set goals before each block of 10 trials during the learning phase. Pretest, retention, and transfer tests were administered without imposed goals. Motor competence was assessed using the Motor Competence Assessment, which integrates scores from the task used to evaluate motor learning and the percentage increase in each block to assess the difficulty of the self-set goals. The findings revealed no significant correlation between motor competence and the difficulty of self-set goals. Nevertheless, higher motor competence was linked to enhanced performance during the acquisition phase, retention and transfer tests. These results suggest that although motor competence is associated with improved motor learning, it does not influence the level of challenge of the goals that children set for themselves.



  • Goal difficulty level and perceived competence on volleyball serve learning
    Cicero Luciano Alves Costa
    Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
    The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the goal difficulty level on the volleyball serve learning and if the perceived sports competence mediates this process. Adolescent volunteers (N = 22, age = 14.0 ± 0.9 years) participated in this study performing the volleyball serve. Two experimental groups were formed: high difficult goal group (HDG; n = 11) and low difficult goal group (LDG; n = 11). Both groups performed 15 trials in the pretest, 160 trials in the acquisition throughout four days, and 15 trials in the retention test after 72 hours. Performance was measured by means of the target bull’s-eye accuracy of the volleyball serve. Comparing the two groups' performance accuracy and consistency on pretest and retention tests was run through two-way ANOVA and ANCOVA (2 Groups x 2 Blocks). The results showed high goal led to greater performance accuracy in the retention than the lower goal, with a very large effect size. The HDG had higher accuracy in the retention test than the pretest (p < .001), while the LDG had no improvement. ANCOVA detected significant between the covariate perceived sport competence and tests. The effect size magnitude of the high goal difficulty in the serve accuracy was higher when adjusted by perceived sports competence. This finding indicates that perceived sports competence could maximize goal difficulty effectiveness. In conclusion, the goal with high difficulty is more effective for volleyball serve learning than low difficulty, and the perceived sports competence seems to moderate the learning process.

  • Executive Functions and Motor Adaptation to Predictable and Unpredictable Perturbations
    Fabricia Q. Loschiavo-Alvares, Rodolfo N. Benda, Guilherme M. Lage, Rodrigo Nicolato, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    SAGE Publications
    In this study, we aimed to investigate the influence of executive functions (EF) on motor adaptation. We compared the motor performance of adults with and without EF deficits. Those with EF deficits ( n = 21) were individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) under medical treatment, and those without EF deficits ( n = 21) comprised a control group (CG) of participants who were also without neurological or psychiatric diagnoses. Both groups performed a complex coincident timing motor task and various computerized neuropsychological tests for assessing EF. To investigate motor adaptation, the motor task provided measures of absolute error (AE) and variable error (VE) to reflect, respectively, performance accuracy and consistency relative to the task goal. We used reaction time (RT) to measure planning time taken before starting the task. First, participants practiced until they reached a criterion of performance stabilization (prior to their exposure to motor perturbations). They were next exposed to fast and slow predictable and unpredictable perturbations. On all neuropsychological tasks, participants with ADHD scored more poorly than control participants ( p < .05); participants with ADHD also performed worse than control participants on all motor measures, particularly under unpredictable perturbations ( p < .05). Under slow perturbations, EF deficits, particularly attentional impulsivity, negatively affected motor adaptation while cognitive flexibility was related to performance improvement. Under fast perturbations, both impulsivity and fast reaction time were related to improvement in motor adaptation under both predictable and unpredictable perturbations. We discuss the research and practical implications of these findings.

  • The volleyball setter’s decision-making on tipping in different game phases
    Renata Alvares Denardi, Fabian Alberto Romero Clavijo, Thiago Augusto Costa De Oliveira, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, and Umberto Cesar Corrêa
    Asociacion Espanola de Analisis del Rendimiento Deportivo

  • EFFECT OF CONSTRAINTS ON VOLLEYBALL SERVICE PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF THE EXPERIENCE LEVEL
    Cícero Luciano Alves Costa, Leandro Nogueira Dutra, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Universidade Estadual de Maringa
    O objetivo do estudo é investigar como o desempenho do saque do voleibol de sujeitos com diferentes níveis de experiência é influenciado pela interação de diferentes restrições. Participaram do estudo 36 voluntários do sexo masculino (16,44 ± 0,50 anos) alocados em dois grupos em função do nível de experiência. Os participantes executaram 10 tentativas do saque do voleibol em cada uma das quatro condições experimentais. Foram manipuladas uma restrição relacionada à dificuldade da meta e outra relacionada ao ambiente físico para execução da tarefa. O desempenho do saque por cima do voleibol foi avaliado por meio de uma lista de checagem do padrão de movimento e da precisão ao alvo. Os resultados demonstraram que o grupo experiente manteve o desempenho em todas as condições, enquanto o grupo inexperiente apresentou menor consistência da precisão nas condições com restrição física e pior escore do padrão de movimento na condição de maior dificuldade da meta em interação com a restrição física. O nível de experiência exerceu maior influência no desempenho do que as demais restrições. Uma possível explicação é que ela é uma restrição capaz de maximizar a forma como o sujeito explora as informações disponibilizadas pelas demais restrições.

  • Kinematic Responses as a Control Strategy to Visual Occlusion
    Carlos Eduardo Campos, Cíntia de Oliveira Matos, Lucas Cléopas Costa da Silva, Paulo Rogério de Almeida Ribeiro, Crislaine Rangel Couto, Suziane Peixoto dos Santos, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Springer International Publishing


  • Motor competence in fundamental motor skills and sport skill learning: Testing the proficiency barrier hypothesis
    Cicero L.A. Costa, Maria T. Cattuzzo, David F. Stodden, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Elsevier BV

  • Author Correction: Task engagement and mental workload involved in variation and repetition of a motor skill (Scientific Reports, (2017), 7, 1, (14764), 10.1038/s41598-017-15343-3)
    Natália Lelis-Torres, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Tércio Apolinário-Souza, Rodolfo N. Benda, and Guilherme M. Lage
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

  • Burnout and Coping Perceptions of Volleyball Players throughout an Annual Sport Season
    Daniel Pires and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Termedia Sp. z.o.o.
    Burnout is a psychological syndrome of reaction to chronic stress that occurs in athletes who feel exhausted by a sport activity that was previously pleasurable and enjoyable. One technique to prevent and control the syndrome is through coping, which is the ability to deal with stressful situations. In contrast to traditional cross-sectional approaches, this study aimed to investigate burnout and coping strategy characteristics over time and to analyze the relationship between burnout dimensions and coping strategies. Fifty-four high-level volleyball athletes (twenty-eight men and twenty-six women, age M = 25.57, SD = 4.72, range 18-35) completed paper-and-pencil measures of burnout and coping four times throughout a sport season. The Friedman test presented a significant increase in the reduced sense of athletic accomplishment (X<sup>2</sup> = 20.58; p < 0.01) and sport devaluation (X<sup>2</sup> = 19.83; p < 0.01) perceptions during the season. However, no coping differences were observed through the longitudinal analysis. Burnout dimensions showed a moderate inverse correlation to confidence/motivation at all measurement points during the season. Overall, the findings suggest that burnout perceptions increase as the season progresses, highlighting the relevance for the periodization of burnout prevention and control


  • Research on motor behavior in the year 2018
    , Leandro Nogueira Dutra, Matheus Henrique Santos Lucas, Arthur Moreira Ferreira, Cíntia de Oliveira Matos, Brenner Ottero, Madson Pereira Cruz, André Rodrigues de Oliveira Neto, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Universidade Estadual de Maringa
    The Motor Behavior (MB) area investigates the neuropsychological processes of the organization of the motor response in terms of learning, control and motor development from which three research sub-areas emerged called Motor Learning (ML), Motor Control (MC) and Motor Development (MD). This study aimed to describe the intellectual production in the sub-areas ML, MC and MD in 2018 and to identify the current profile of the MB area. The intellectual production in the sub-areas of the MB was organized, by stratum, type of task and adherence with the CAPES area 21 journals. There were 53 articles published by 51 researchers in the MB area linked to Postgraduate programs in Physical Education in 2018. The distribution of articles by sub-areas was represented by 30.18% ML, 54.72% MC and 15.10% MD. The MC sub-area presented 86% of articles published in the upper stratum, the ML sub-area with 37%, followed by the MD sub-area with 13%. The average of the three sub-areas resulted in 83.02% of studies with a simple task and only 16.98% with a complex task. The greater number of publications with low adherence combined with the greater number of researches with simple tasks seems to demonstrate the researchers' difficulty in approaching the knowledge produced in the area of MB for undergraduate students in Physical Education.

  • Enhanced Performance Stabilization Increases Performance Variability in a Virtual Interception Task
    Crislaine Rangel Couto, Claudio Manoel Ferreira Leite, Carlos Eduardo Campos, Leonardo Luiz Portes, Suziane Peixoto dos Santos, Madson Pereira Cruz, Maria Carolina Andrade Sousa, and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    SAGE Publications
    Performing a motor task depends on the level of performance stabilization and movement control, and both aspects of motor behavior are related to motor learning (retention and transfer) and adaptation (predictable and unpredictable perturbations). Yet few studies have further investigated the underlying dynamics that may elicit these benefits. In this study, we investigated the effects of two levels of performance stabilization on motor performance and control while learning to intercept a virtual moving target. We randomly divided 40 participants of both sexes ( Mage = 26.02 years, SD = 2.02) into a Stabilization Group (SG) and a Superstabilization Group (SSG). We considered the performance stabilized when a moving target was intercepted three times in a row and superstabilized when the same criterion was repeated six times. We analyzed outcome variables related to performance accuracy (absolute spatial error) and variability(coefficient of variation) and motor control (relative time to peak velocity-tPV% and its coefficient of variation) on both the first and last blocks of practice trials. Both groups showed comparable increases in performance accuracy from the first to the last block ( p = .001, ηp2 = 1.00), but SSG presented higher variability than SG ( p = .05, ηp2 = .70). Concerning motor control, both groups started the experiment with low tPV% and finished with comparably high tPV% and variability. Thus, although practicing two levels of performance stabilization led to similar performance accuracy and movement control, superstabilization resulted in higher performance variability with no loss of accuracy. Enhanced stabilization may increase the ability to adapt to environmental changes, but more research is needed to demonstrate this. These findings add to an understanding of the relationship between levels of performance stabilization and performance variability and may have implications for professional interventions (e.g. sports, rehabilitation) in considering the benefits of practice beyond performance stabilization.

  • Burnout and coping perceptions of judo athletes throughout a sport season
    Daniel Alvarez Pires and Herbert Ugrinowitsch
    Asociacion Espanola de Analisis del Rendimiento Deportivo
    The authors thank PROPESP/UFPA for support funding to English revision. This study was financed in part by the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.

  • Motor learning and COMT Val158met polymorphism: Analyses of oculomotor behavior and corticocortical communication
    Nathálya Gardênia de Holanda Marinho Nogueira, Débora Marques de Miranda, Maicon Rodrigues Albuquerque, Bárbara de Paula Ferreira, Marco Túlio Silva Batista, Juliana Otoni Parma, Tércio Apolinário-Souza, Lucas Eduardo Antunes Bicalho, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, and Guilherme Menezes Lage
    Elsevier BV

  • Análise do ataque do jogador de ponta no voleibol brasileiro masculino
    Gustavo De Conti Teixeira Costa, Auro Barreiros Freire, Carmen Fernández‐Echeverría, Breno Ferreira de Britto Evangelista, Gustavo Ferreira Pedrosa, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, and Henrique de Oliveira Castro
    FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

  • Analysis of the setting and predictive factors of the effect of attack according to game ecology: The case of female volleyball
    Augusto Cezar Rodrigues Rocha, Gustavo Ferreira Pedrosa, Auro Barreiros Freire, Gibson Moreira Praça, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Henrique de Oliveira Castro, and Gustavo Teixeira Costa
    Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb
    The objective of this study was to identify how the ecological variables influence the setter during the setting and what were the predictive factors of the attack effect among Brazilian teams ranked from the 1st to 4th place in the volleyball Women’s Super-League in 2016-2017. We analyzed 768 attacks from 10 matches played among the teams. A descriptive analysis was performed and, to identify how the setting location differed in relation to the ecological variables, the One-Way ANOVA (factor 1 = setting location) was used. In addition, multinomial logistic regression was performed to understand the predictive factors of the effect of the attack. The significance level was set at 5% (p≤.05) and the SPSS software version 20.0 was used. The results showed the setting location differed according to the distance between the setter and the central attacker, the distance between the setter and the central blocker, and the distance between the setter and the blocker of position 4. Besides, it was observed that the powerful attack and the blocking touch were predictive factors of the effect of the attack. Thus, it is concluded that the decision-making for the action of the setting is based on the availability of the central attacker and the configuration of the blockers, the powerful attack reduces the chances of defense and the blocking touch reduces the chances of scoring by attacking.

  • Focus of attention and online demonstration effects on temporal error and muscle activation
    Tércio Apolinário-Souza, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Carlos Eduardo Campos, Lucas Túlio de Lacerda, Frank Douglas Tourino, Lucas Savassi Figueiredo, and Guilherme Menezes Lage
    FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
    Abstract The purpose of the present study was to examine whether there would be performance differences between external and internal focus of attention conditions and an online demonstration condition, and if these differences would be observed at a neuromuscular level through EMG analysis, in addition to traditional outcome measures. We hypothesized that under the demonstration condition participants would perform better than under external and internal focus conditions. We also hypothesized that demonstration condition would show smaller EMG activity than external and internal focus conditions. Furthermore, we hope to replicate the benefits of external focus in relation to internal focus, both in outcome and product measures. Six male participants performed a bilateral leg extension under internal focus of attention, external focus of attention and online demonstration conditions. Muscular contractions goal times were set for concentric muscle action (4 seconds) and eccentric muscle action (2 seconds). An electrogoniometer was used to record muscular activation (production measures), and temporal error was used to observe performance (outcome measures). Results showed that online demonstration condition obtained better performance than external focus condition and a reduced muscular activation. However, differences between internal focus and the other experimental conditions were not found. These findings advance in the understanding mechanisms underpining the focus of attention, such as proposed by Constrained Action Hypothesis.