Skilled sport performance is the result of a complex interaction of motor and cognitive skills
in dynamic environments. While cognitive and motor processes in peak performance have …

PROBLEM: There has been a recent upsurge of research interest in cognitive sport
psychology or the scientific study of mental processes (eg, mental imagery) in athletes …

The recent upsurge in “brain training and perceptual-cognitive training,” proposing to
improve isolated processes, such as brain function, visual perception, and decision-making …

Interest in the influence of a prior cognitive task on physical performance is growing. This
work has been approached by several different disciplines, showing its broad importance …

Historically, cognitive researchers have largely ignored the domain of sport in their quest to
understand how the mind works. This neglect is due, in part, to the limitations of the …

The ecological approach that has come to be used in recent years to frame the learning and
performance of sports skills, contrasts with the explanatory models of motor control that …

The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists
considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports …

Cognitive science has recently moved toward action-integrated paradigms to account for
some of its most remarkable findings. This novel approach has opened up new venues for …

Decades of research have shown that training on a task typically leads to enhanced
performance, provided certain task parameters remain consistent across training (for an …

Objectives The present paper elucidates some cognitive mechanisms of expertise in sport
that have emerged from recent studies of three topics in psychology: motor imagery; flow …