Sport type determines differences in executive functions in elite athletes

Krenn, Bjoern; Finkenzeller, Thomas; Würth, Sabine; Amesberger, Günter

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.06.002

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“…While both broad and narrow transfer effects may occur in sport from training 51 , the impact of transfer in general cognitive functions has been debated 47,52 . Also, although increased cognitive functions are readily observed in all elite athletes preliminary studies suggest that those playing ball sports outperform other athletes 37,53 . Future studies are warranted to better understand how EF related specifically to ball sports.…”

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Level of play and coach-rated game intelligence are related to performance on design fluency in elite soccer players

Vestberg

jafari

Almeida

et al. 2020

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Executive brain functions are innate mechanisms for regulating behavior. While the impact of suboptimal executive functions has been characterized in patients, their contribution to individual success has not been elucidated. We set out to understand how executive functions relate to successful human behavior by examining their relation to game intelligence in sport-the ability to read a game and quickly adapt the behavior. In elite soccer players (n = 51), those playing in national teams (national team players) significantly outperformed those only playing at premier league level (premier league players) in Design Fluency (DF), a complex visuo-spatial executive function test that includes measures of creativity and cognitive flexibility. Their result showed a moderate correlation with coach rated game intelligence, remained also when correcting for low level cognitive capacity and was most evident when considering cognitive flexibility. DF capacity also correlated with number of assists made during the season but not with number of made goals during the same period, linking the fast planning of several steps in DF to fast planning of several steps in the soccer game. Altogether, our data suggests that DF capacity relates to success in soccer both on a subjective and on an objective level.

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Level of play and coach-rated game intelligence are related to performance on design fluency in elite soccer players

Vestberg

jafari

Almeida

et al. 2020

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“…However, previous research focused on sport expertise and elite athletes and may explain these differences due to sport-specific training in a or the intensity training experience that is different for RA. As mentioned before, training in a cognitive task may also enhance performance on related, but untrained, cognitive tasks 55) . Another factor that may be different and yield different results from previous studies is prolonged training time, which may lead to adaptations in basic cognitive abilities causing performance differences between experts and novices even on tasks independent to the expert's domain 54) .…”

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Differences in dual task paradigms and executive function ability for recreational athletes in United Arab Emirates

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“…Ishihara et al (2017) reported that different physical sports place different demands on cognitive functions. Krenn et al (2018) also stated that the development of executive functions might be influenced by the type of sports engaged in.…”

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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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Sport type determines differences in executive functions in elite athletes

Cited by 76 publications

References 47 publications

Level of play and coach-rated game intelligence are related to performance on design fluency in elite soccer players

Level of play and coach-rated game intelligence are related to performance on design fluency in elite soccer players

Differences in dual task paradigms and executive function ability for recreational athletes in United Arab Emirates

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

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