Team Synchrony Under Fire: Heart Rate Recurrence Reveals a Biosignature of Victory in Elite Esports

Winning teams exhibited more frequent, complex, and sustained HR synchrony during gameplay-suggesting a state of coordinated physiological readiness. These recurrence-based signatures offer a novel biobehavioral marker for training, diagnostics, and team assessment in esports.

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Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
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2025-10-15
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https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000003867
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Action Observation and Synchronization
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Team Synchrony Under Fire: Heart Rate Recurrence Reveals a Biosignature of Victory in Elite Esports

Xinghua Liang, XINYUAN GU, AGUDAMU, YANG ZHANG et al.
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Action Observation and Synchronization
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Team Synchrony Under Fire: Heart Rate Recurrence Reveals a Biosignature of Victory in Elite Esports

Xinghua Liang, XINYUAN GU, AGUDAMU, YANG ZHANG, SIYUAN ZHAO
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Abstract

Winning teams exhibited more frequent, complex, and sustained HR synchrony during gameplay-suggesting a state of coordinated physiological readiness. These recurrence-based signatures offer a novel biobehavioral marker for training, diagnostics, and team assessment in esports.

Medicine & Science in Sports & ExerciseVol. 58(3)
Macau University of Science and Technology (MO), University of Macau (MO), Tencent (China) (CN), American Society for Neurochemistry (US), Sungkyunkwan University (KR)
Openalex Percentile: Top 20%
Action Observation and Synchronization
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