Journal article
Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise in Elite Volleyball Players
Frontiers in psychology, Vol.4, pp.36-36
2013
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00036
PMID: 23471100
Abstract
The goal of the current study was to investigate the relationship between sport expertise and perceptual and cognitive skills, as measured by the component skills approach. We hypothesized that athletes would outperform non-athlete controls in a number of perceptual and cognitive domains and that sport expertise would minimize gender differences. A total of 154 individuals (87 professional volleyball players and 67 non-athlete controls) participated in the study. Participants performed a cognitive battery, which included tests of executive control, memory, and visuo-spatial attention. Athletes showed superior performance speed on three tasks (two executive control tasks and one visuo-spatial attentional processing task). In a subset of tasks, gender effects were observed mainly in the control group, supporting the notion that athletic experience can reduce traditional gender effects. The expertise effects obtained substantiate the view that laboratory tests of cognition may indeed enlighten the sport-cognition relationship.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise in Elite Volleyball Players
- Creators
- Heloisa Alves - Lifelong Brain and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMichelle W Voss - Department of Psychology, Aging Mind and Brain Initiative, University of IowaWalter R Boot - Department of Psychology, Florida State UniversityAndrea Deslandes - Exercise Neuroscience Laboratory (LaNEx/PPGEF), Universidade Gama FilhoVictor Cossich - Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, National Institute of Traumatology and OrthopaedicsJose Inacio Salles - Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, National Institute of Traumatology and OrthopaedicsArthur F Kramer - Lifelong Brain and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in psychology, Vol.4, pp.36-36
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00036
- PMID
- 23471100
- NLM abbreviation
- Front Psychol
- ISSN
- 1664-1078
- eISSN
- 1664-1078
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media S.A
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984001107202771
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