Cognition in soccer and futsal: evidence of validity of a 4-instrument protocol to assess executive functioning among women athletes
Alberto Filgueiras,
Matthew Stults-Kolehmainen,
Gislane Melo
et al.
Abstract:Evidence suggests that success in sports, especially soccer and futsal are linked to higher levels of executive functioning. Still, the literature does not present a homogeneous set of instruments to measure executive functions, which leads to large variability in results. In this paper, we assembled four already recognised measures to propose a valid 4-instrument protocol to assess executive functions among soccer and futsal athletes. We conducted two studies to validate the proposed protocol. We addressed kn… Show more
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