Cognition plays a key role in sports performance. This meta-analytic review synthesizes
research that examined the relationship between cognitive functions, skills, and sports …

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 …

Objectives There has been considerable inconsistency and confusion in the definition of
elite/expert athletes in sport psychology research, which has implications for studies …

The present study explored direct and interactive effects between behavioral self-regulation
(SR) and two measures of executive function (EF, inhibitory control and working memory) …

While men and women do not differ in levels of general intelligence, gender differences do
exist for more specific cognitive abilities. In particular, gender gaps in spatial ability are the …

While being very promising for a wide range of applications, mental-imagery-based brain–
computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) remain barely used outside laboratories, notably due to the …

Cognitive training has received a lot of attention recently, yielding findings that can be
conflicting and controversial. In this paper, we present a novel approach to cognitive training …

We give a comprehensive picture of perceptual-cognitive (PC) skills that could contribute to
performance in interceptive sports. Both visual skills that are low level and unlikely …

Mental imagery is a fully immersive multi-sensory procedure that associates as numerous
senses to create a mental image and process it without the presence of external stimuli. In …

Spatial reasoning is critical for success in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) disciplines and particularly for geoscience. To evaluate capabilities …