The research of the mental rotation dynamic balance finger-tapping and reaction times of 14-15 year-old artistic and aerobic gymnastics sports women

In this study that aims to examine mental rotation, finger tapping test, balance, visual and auditory reaction time of female artistic and aerobic gymnasts; 20 female artistic and 21 female aerobic, totally 41 voluntary athletes participated from Bursa Provincial Directorate of Youth Services, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality Sports Club and Yıldırım Municipality Sports Club. In the study, mental rotation, finger tapping test, visual and auditory reaction time measurements have been made by a special, validity and reliability done computer based programme. At the same time balance measurement is performed by PK200WL dynamic balance measurement system. For the analysis of gained data, the possibility that continuous variables are convenient with normal distribution in SPSS "24.0" packaged software has been tested by Shapiro-Wilk test. The descriptive statistics of gained data have been presented as mean, standard deviation and values. T test has been used for between-groups comparison of continuous variables. The relation possibility between parameters has been researched by Pearson correlation coefficient. It has been observed among artistic and aerobic gymnasts that there is no statistically significant difference between mental rotation correct number, active response time, simple and selective visual reaction time fix interval and raslantısal interval also simple auditory reaction time fix interval and raslantısal interval (p>0.05) and when it comes the comparison of right and left hand finger tapping numbers, there is a statistically significant difference on behalf of artistic gymnasts (p<0.001). Also a statistically significant negative medium-level relation has been found between gymnasts' body mass index, selective visual reaction time fix interval and simple auditory reaction time fix interval (p<0.05) besides that it has been found between age and selective visual reaction time (p<0.05). As a result it has been established among artistic and aerobic female gymnasts that there is no mental rotation, balance, visual and auditory reaction time difference and artistic gymnasts' dominant hand performance is better but reaction period of simple auditory and selective visual reaction time strings out related to age and body mass index increase. Key words: Gymnastics, mental rotation, reaction time, balance, finger tapping number.