Interactive Effects of Orienteering Experience and Cognitive Performance on Dynamic Prefrontal Activation: An fNIRS Study Using a Maze Task
This fNIRS study demonstrates that experienced orienteers outperform novices in spatial maze tasks by exhibiting enhanced and more focused activation in the dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, indicating that long-term orienteering training optimizes prefrontal neural efficiency to improve spatial cognition and decision-making.