Motor expertise and performance in spatial tasks: A meta-analysis

D Voyer, P Jansen - Human Movement Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study aimed to provide a summary of findings relevant to the influence of motor
expertise on performance in spatial tasks and to examine potential moderators of this effect …

Motor imagery, performance and motor rehabilitation

TE MacIntyre, CR Madan, AP Moran, C Collet… - Progress in brain …, 2018 - Elsevier
Motor imagery has been central to adzvances in sport performance and rehabilitation.
Neuroscience has provided techniques for measurement which have aided our …

Improving children's coordinative skills and executive functions: the effects of a football exercise program

M Alesi, A Bianco, G Luppina… - Perceptual and motor …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies have focused on the positive influence of regular physical activity on
executive functioning in children. Coordinative skills (agility) and executive functions …

It'sa matter of mind! Cognitive functioning predicts the athletic performance in ultra-marathon runners

G Cona, A Cavazzana, A Paoli, G Marcolin, A Grainer… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The present study was aimed at exploring the influence of cognitive processes on
performance in ultra-marathon runners, providing an overview of the cognitive aspects that …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Mental rotation performance in soccer players and gymnasts in an object-based mental rotation task

P Jansen, J Lehmann - Advances in cognitive Psychology, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In this study, the effect of motor expertise on an object-based mental rotation task was
investigated. 60 males and 60 females (40 soccer players, 40 gymnasts, and 40 non …

Motor and cognitive growth following a Football Training Program

M Alesi, A Bianco, J Padulo, G Luppina… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Motor and cognitive growth in children may be influenced by football practice. Therefore the
aim of this study was to assess whether a Football Training Program taken over 6 months …

[HTML][HTML] Why women see differently from the way men see? A review of sex differences in cognition and sports

R Li - Journal of sport and health science, 2014 - Elsevier
The differences of learning and memory between males and females have been well
documented and confirmed by both human and animal studies. The sex differences in …

Soccer athletes are superior to non-athletes at perceiving soccer-specific and non-sport specific human biological motion

T Romeas, J Faubert - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have shown that athletes' domain specific perceptual-cognitive expertise can
transfer to everyday tasks. Here we assessed the perceptual-cognitive expertise of athletes …

[HTML][HTML] Attentional, anticipatory and spatial cognition fluctuate throughout the menstrual cycle: Potential implications for female sport

F Ronca, JM Blodgett, G Bruinvels, M Lowery… - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Current research suggests that menstruating female athletes might be at greater risk of
musculoskeletal injury in relation to hormonal changes throughout the menstrual cycle. A …