ArticleBrain sciences2022
The Influence of a Specific Cognitive-Motor Training Protocol on Planning Abilities and Visual Search in Young Soccer Players.
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- Effects of football training on cognitive performance in children and adolescents: a meta-analytic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of cognitive-motor dual-task training on athletes' cognition and motor performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
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- Task-Based EEG Neurofeedback Enhances Training Effects in Dynamic Visual Search.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Article
- Cognitive-motor dual-task training differentially affects visual working memory, multifocal attention, and multisensory integration in youth soccer players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- The Effects of Motor-Cognitive Warm-Up Protocols on Sport-Specific Skills in 8-Year-Old Football Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Enhancing Physical and Cognitive Performance in Youth Football: The Role of Specific Dual-Task Training.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Effects of balance training combined with stroboscopic visual training on balance ability in college-aged male soccer players.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Developing integrative practice on basic soccer skills to stimulate cognitive promotion for children and adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Dual-task costs in speed tasks: a comparison between elite ice hockey, open-skill and closed-skill sports athletes.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Comparative effects of open-skill and closed-skill sports on executive function in university students: a 16-week quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Impact of an exergame intervention on cognitive-motor functions and training experience in young team sports athletes: a non-randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2023Article
- Soccer's AI transformation: deep learning's analysis of soccer's pandemic research evolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The benefits of sport activity on cognition and especially on executive function development are well-known, and in recent years, several kinds of cognitive-motor training (CMT) have been proven effective in adults and older people. Less is known about possible CMT benefits in children. This study aims to confirm the positive influence played by CMTs on specific executive functions (planning abilities and visual search) in young soccer players. Twenty-four 10-year-old athletes were recruited and randomly assigned to the experimental (Exp) and control (Con) groups of 12 players. Both groups were trained for 10 weeks, twice a week (90 min per training), following standard soccer training (technical-tactical exercises). The Exp group, during the first training session of the week, in the last 22 min, performed the experimental treatment, which consisted of a psychokinetic CMT. Both groups were examined before and after the ten-week training using the Tower of London and WISC-IV cancellation tests. Results revealed that the Exp group, following treatment, reported significantly better scores than the Con group in all the cognitive measures. We concluded that the proposed CMT is more effective than motor training alone at improving planning abilities and visual search abilities, even in children.
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