Several recent systematic and targeted reviews have highlighted limitations in our
understanding of talent in sport. However, a comprehensive profile of where the scientific …

Highlights•Predicting an opponent's action intention is key to successful performance in
many sports.•Sources of information that allow such predictions include an opponent's …

Objectives Visual identification and anticipation of an opponent's action intentions is crucial
for successful performance in interactive situations such as team-handball penalties. We …

Highlights•Exciting new multi-disciplinary studies offer unique insights to talent
identification.•Emergent statistical approaches help to uncover the best predictors of future …

The notion that people change over time is relatively uncontroversial; however, less trivial
are observations that many of these changes are possible only as the product of the …

When anticipating an opponent's action intention, athletes may rely on both kinematic and
contextual cues. Here we show that patterns of previous action outcomes (ie, a contextual …

Examining non-sport-related cognitive tasks of attention and executive control in skilled
athletes may provide insight into the acquisition of highly specific skills developed in experts …

Abstract Twenty years ago, Howe, Davidson and Sloboda (1998) provided a state of the
science review of innate talent. This paper was extremely influential although much has …

In the elite domain of interactive sports, athletes who demonstrate a left preference (eg,
holding a weapon with the left hand in fencing or boxing in a 'southpaw'stance) seem …

Negative frequency-dependent effects rather than innate predispositions may provide left-
handers with an advantage in one-on-one fighting situations. Support mainly comes from …