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Unresolved reference
1905 · External reference
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Unresolved reference
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Executive functions
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Executive functions
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Thinking outside of the box: The role of environmental adaptation in the acquisition of skilled and expert performance
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Unresolved reference
2006 · External reference
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Professional athletes have extraordinary skills for rapidly learning complex and neutral dynamic visual scenes
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There is no supporting evidence for a far transfer of general perceptual or cognitive training to sports performance
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A critical review of research on executive functions in sport and exercise
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Unresolved reference
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Modified perceptual training in sport: A new classification framework
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Individual differences in attentional capability are linked to creative decision making
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The size and shape of the attentional “spotlight” varies with differences in sports expertise
2014 · External reference
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Specific relations of visual skills and executive functions in elite soccer players
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Reasoning ability is (little more than) working-memory capacity?
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Perceptual load as a necessary condition for selective attention
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Unresolved reference
2014 · External reference
Trained athletes and cognitive function: A systematic review and meta-analysis
10.1080/1612197x.2022.2084764 · 2023 · External reference
Pay attention! A review of attentional expertise in sport
10.1080/17509840802641372 · 2009 · External reference
Testing of tactical performance in youth elite soccer
2010 · External reference
Creativity, expertise, and attention: Exploring their development and their relationships
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Unresolved reference
2021 · External reference
The relationship between visual attention and expertise in sports
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Why “decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile” fails to score
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10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00311 · 2019 · External reference
Introduction: What is it to be an expert?
1988 · External reference
3D-Multiple object tracking training task improves passing decision-making accuracy in soccer players
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The relationship between cognitive functions and sport-specific motor-skills in elite youth soccer players
2019 · External reference
Fundamental relationships of executive functions and physiological abilities with game intelligence, game time and injuries in elite soccer players
10.1002/acp.3886 · 2021 · External reference
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Hit or miss? Insight into executive functions
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Above averaging in literature reviews
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Unresolved reference
1916 · External reference
A critical systematic review of the neurotracker perceptual-cognitive training tool
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Executive functioning in highly talented soccer players
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Executive functions predict the success of top-soccer players
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Core executive functions are associated with success in young elite soccer players
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Multiple domain-general assessments of cognitive functions in elite athletes: Contrasting evidence for the influence of expertise, sport type and sex
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