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Perceptual vision training in non-sport-specific context: effect on performance skills and cognition in young females

Although an increasing interest in vision training for sport performance, whether it may have a transfer to sport-specific skills and whether such transfer could be mediated by cognition remain open issues. To enlighten this point, we tested the effect of 6-weeks sport vision training programmes (re...

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Autores principales: Formenti, Damiano, Duca, Marco, Trecroci, Athos, Ansaldi, Leslie, Bonfanti, Luca, Alberti, Giampietro, Iodice, Pierpaolo
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6904471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31822740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55252-1
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author Formenti, Damiano
Duca, Marco
Trecroci, Athos
Ansaldi, Leslie
Bonfanti, Luca
Alberti, Giampietro
Iodice, Pierpaolo
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description Although an increasing interest in vision training for sport performance, whether it may have a transfer to sport-specific skills and whether such transfer could be mediated by cognition remain open issues. To enlighten this point, we tested the effect of 6-weeks sport vision training programmes (requiring generic or volleyball-specific motor actions) in non-sport-specific context compared to a third group performing traditional volleyball training in sport-specific context. Fifty-one female volleyball players were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Before and after training period subjects were tested on accuracy of volleyball-specific skills and cognitive performance (clinical reaction time, executive control, perceptual speed). Accuracy of volleyball-specific skills improved after traditional volleyball training with respect to the vision training groups. Conversely, vision training groups improved cognitive performance (clinical reaction time, executive control and perceptual speed), as compared to traditional volleyball training group. Our results have shown that vision training in non-sport-specific context (both generic or with specific motor actions) improved cognitive performance, but seems to be less effective for improving sport-specific skills. These evidences suggest that environment in which exercises were performed plays a key role to improve perception and action in sport-specific skills, supporting the ecological approach to sport learning.
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spelling pubmed-69044712019-12-13 Perceptual vision training in non-sport-specific context: effect on performance skills and cognition in young females Formenti, Damiano Duca, Marco Trecroci, Athos Ansaldi, Leslie Bonfanti, Luca Alberti, Giampietro Iodice, Pierpaolo Sci Rep Article Although an increasing interest in vision training for sport performance, whether it may have a transfer to sport-specific skills and whether such transfer could be mediated by cognition remain open issues. To enlighten this point, we tested the effect of 6-weeks sport vision training programmes (requiring generic or volleyball-specific motor actions) in non-sport-specific context compared to a third group performing traditional volleyball training in sport-specific context. Fifty-one female volleyball players were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Before and after training period subjects were tested on accuracy of volleyball-specific skills and cognitive performance (clinical reaction time, executive control, perceptual speed). Accuracy of volleyball-specific skills improved after traditional volleyball training with respect to the vision training groups. Conversely, vision training groups improved cognitive performance (clinical reaction time, executive control and perceptual speed), as compared to traditional volleyball training group. Our results have shown that vision training in non-sport-specific context (both generic or with specific motor actions) improved cognitive performance, but seems to be less effective for improving sport-specific skills. These evidences suggest that environment in which exercises were performed plays a key role to improve perception and action in sport-specific skills, supporting the ecological approach to sport learning. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6904471/ /pubmed/31822740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55252-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6904471/
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