Attention, working-memory control, working-memory capacity, and sport performance: The moderating role of athletic expertise.

European Journal of Sport Science
Robert Vaughan, Sylvain Laborde

Abstract

The aim of this research was to detangle the association between attention, working-memory (focusing on both control and capacity functions), and sport performance across athletic expertise. Specifically, the mediating effect of working-memory-control and working-memory-capacity on the attention and performance relationship will be investigated, and whether this effect differs across athlete expertise. A sample of 359 athletes (Mage = 18.91 ± SD = 1.01; 54.87% male) with a range of athletic expertise (novice n = 99, amateur n = 92, elite n = 87, and super-elite n = 81) completed a battery of neurocognitive tasks assessing attention, working-memory-control, working-memory-capacity, and a cognitively engaging motor task (e.g. basketball free-throw task). Athletes with more expertise performed better on tasks of attention, working-memory-control and working-memory-capacity. Results of structural equation modelling indicated a positive association between the cognitive measures and sport performance. Specifically, working-memory-control and working-memory-capacity mediated the attention and sport performance relationship. Additionally, invariance testing indicated larger effects for those with more athletic expertise. These finding...Continue Reading

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Nov 27, 2020·PeerJ·Julie Justine BenoitJocelyn Faubert
Jan 29, 2021·Perceptual and Motor Skills·Robert S Vaughan, Christopher McConville
Oct 28, 2021·Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports·Roi Charles PinedaDebbie Van Biesen

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