Cognitive function of young male tennis players and non-athletes

Pačesová, Petra; Šmela, Pavel; Kraček, Stanislav; Kukurová, Klaudia; Plevková, Lucia

doi:10.5507/ag.2018.011

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“…According to the research conclusions, physical activity of men in adolescence may be beneficial for cognitive operations in which attention plays a role [37]. Some other studies came to similar conclusions [38][39][40]. However, other cognitive and executive functions were also measured.…”

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Cognitive and Executive Functions of Young Men regarding Sport Activity and Personality Traits

Pačesová

2021

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Sport activity can be a moderator of change in the level of cognitive and executive functions. This research sample consisted of 71 men aged 22.66 ± 1.91 years. This group was split into two subgroups: nonathletes (n = 26) and athletes (n = 45). The athletes included open skill sport athletes (n = 21) and closed skill sport athletes (n = 24). We used a standardized S-test to detect the level of cognitive functions, a standardized EPQ-R questionnaire to find out the degree of neuroticism and a standardized IVE questionnaire to measure the level of impulsivity. For data processing, we used the Kruskal–Wallis test following the Mann–Whitney test. To calculate the effect of size differences we used the coefficients η2 and r. Our research showed a higher level of cognitive function of athletes compared to nonathletes. More detailed data analysis showed that open skill sport disciplines are influential. There is also a negative relationship between the level of cognitive function and the degree of impulsivity and neuroticism. It seems that sport activity, specifically open skill sport disciplines, has the potential to increase the cognitive functions of young adult men. Personality traits—neuroticism and impulsivity—have a negative relationship with the level of cognitive functions of young men.

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Cognitive and Executive Functions of Young Men regarding Sport Activity and Personality Traits

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2021

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“…There is evidence that shows that elite athletes perform better than non-athletes regarding EF performance [25] in, for example, tennis [26], volleyball [27], basketball [28,29] and soccer [3,30,31]. These differences may be attributed to processes that are collectively referred to as cognitive skill transfer (CST).…”

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Inhibition and Calendar Age Explain Variance in Game Performance of Youth Soccer Athletes

Heilmann

Wollny

Lautenbach

2022

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The assessment of core executive functions (EFs; i.e., inhibition, working memory, cognitive flexibility) has often been presented as a diagnostic tool for evaluating cognitive functions in recent publications. For example, EFs are essential in soccer because players must quickly adapt, change strategies, and inhibit responses in rapidly changing game situations. Previous research has shown relations between (subjectively rated) game performance and the EFs of soccer players. Nevertheless, the previous studies’ samples were heterogeneous in their performance level (experts vs. amateurs), and the ratings were rather unsystematic (no validated rating protocol). Therefore, the current study aimed to predict soccer players’ game performance (i.e., systematically rated by coaches) with the help of EF performance. Therefore, we assessed the game performance (small-sided game, Game Performance Assessment Instrument [GPAI]) and EFs (inhibition: flanker task; working memory: 3-back task; cognitive flexibility: number-letter task) of 94 male soccer players (12–19 years old) from Germany’s highest competitive level. Multiple regression model results indicate that inhibition (i.e., flanker effect) and calendar age explain ~18% of players’ game performance variance. Results have to be interpreted with regard to the age-dependency of game performance and EFs. In conclusion, even though the results are based on a cross-sectional study, it appears that calendar age needs to be considered when assessing EFs.

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“…To date, few studies have investigated whether expertise would influence recognition for body postures. Previous studies have revealed a positive correlation between the extent of physical training and cognitive function (Hillman et al, 2008;Di Russo et al, 2010;Alves et al, 2013;Pacesova et al, 2018). Further, athletes have been shown to perform better in domain-general cognitive tasks than non-athletes (Voss et al, 2010;Montuori et al, 2019).…”

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Body-Posture Recognition by Undergraduate Students Majoring in Physical Education and Other Disciplines

Tao¹,

Du²,

Li³

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Front. Psychol.

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Humans are more proficient at processing visual display of body posture when the body is in upright orientation, compared to when inverted (inversion effect). Here we investigated whether extensive exposure or expertise on body posture recognition would affect the efficiency with which body-posture is processed. Using whole-body and piecemeal-body postures as stimuli, we performed two experiments to investigate whether body-posture recognition differed between two groups of participants: undergraduates majoring in physical education (PE) and those in other subjects (non-PE), respectively. These two groups differed significantly in the frequency and intensity of exercise per day and/or accumulated exercise time. In our experiments, following initial presentation of an image of a body posture, participants were shown the same or a different stimulus and were asked to report whether or not they had been previously shown the same image. The orientations of the body postures were also varied between trials. Our results showed that, in Experiment 1, for whole-body posture recognition, both the PE and non-PE groups showed a robust body-inversion effect in terms of both error rate and reaction time (RT), but the magnitude of the body-inversion effect in the RT measure was greater in the PE than the non-PE group. In Experiment 2, for piecemeal-body postures, both groups showed the inversion effect in terms of both error rate and RT measures and the PE group made fewer overall errors than the non-PE group. These cumulative results suggest that a superiority effect exists for PE participants compared with non-PE participants. Our results are generally consistent with the expertise hypothesis.

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Cognitive function of young male tennis players and non-athletes

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Cognitive and Executive Functions of Young Men regarding Sport Activity and Personality Traits

Cognitive and Executive Functions of Young Men regarding Sport Activity and Personality Traits

Inhibition and Calendar Age Explain Variance in Game Performance of Youth Soccer Athletes

Body-Posture Recognition by Undergraduate Students Majoring in Physical Education and Other Disciplines

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