Professional athletes have extraordinary skills for rapidly learning complex and neutral dynamic visual scenes

J Faubert - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Evidence suggests that an athlete's sports-related perceptual-cognitive expertise is a crucial
element of top-level competitive sports. When directly assessing whether such experience …

Perceptual‐cognitive expertise in sport and its acquisition: Implications for applied cognitive psychology

AM Williams, PR Ford, DW Eccles… - Applied Cognitive …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We review contemporary research on perceptual‐cognitive expertise in sport and consider
implications for those working in the field of applied cognitive psychology. We identify the …

The relationship between expertise in sports, visuospatial, and basic cognitive skills

H Heppe, A Kohler, MT Fleddermann… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Team sports place high demands on visuospatial and other cognitive skills. However, there
is a lack of research on visuospatial skills of elite athletes and there are heterogeneous …

Perceptual-cognitive training of athletes

J Faubert, L Sidebottom - Journal of Clinical Sport …, 2012 - journals.humankinetics.com
This present article discusses an approach to training high-level athletes' perceptual-
cognitive skills. The intention herein is to (a) introduce concepts in regard to what may be …

[HTML][HTML] The perceptual cognitive processes underpinning skilled performance in volleyball: Evidence from eye-movements and verbal reports of thinking involving an …

J Afonso, J Garganta, A Mcrobert… - Journal of sports …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
An extensive body of work has focused on the processes underpinning perceptual-cognitive
expertise. The majority of researchers have used film-based simulations to capture superior …

Perceptual-cognitive skills and their interaction as a function of task constraints in soccer

A Roca, PR Ford, AP McRobert… - Journal of Sport and …, 2013 - journals.humankinetics.com
The ability to anticipate and to make decisions is crucial to skilled performance in many
sports. We examined the role of and interaction between the different perceptual-cognitive …

Athletes have different dominant cognitive functions depending on type of sport

A Yongtawee, J Park, Y Kim, M Woo - International Journal of Sport …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
High-performing athletes possess the ability to read the game, which is known as the “sports
brain.” The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in athletes' cognitive …

Team sport expertise shows superior stimulus-driven visual attention and motor inhibition

FW Meng, ZF Yao, EC Chang, YL Chen - PloS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Previous studies on athletes' cognitive functions have reported superior performance on
tasks measuring attention and sensorimotor abilities. However, how types of sports training …

Perceptual-cognitive skill and the in situ performance of soccer players

MJJ van Maarseveen, RRD Oudejans… - Quarterly journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Many studies have shown that experts possess better perceptual-cognitive skills than
novices (eg, in anticipation, decision making, pattern recall), but it remains unclear whether …

Perceptual-cognitive expertise in elite volleyball players

H Alves, MW Voss, WR Boot, A Deslandes… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
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 …