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Neural efficiency is an important characteristics that supports expert behavior in elite athletes, which suggests that athletes may require less cortical consumption when performing a task related to their expertise domain. However, this study showed that such processing efficiency may depend on the investigated cognitive processes.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that badminton players were more flexibly to use attentional resources when performing an attention task related to their sport expertise than the athletic controls, suggesting a
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I hope this article will motivate more research to explore athletic brain supporting expert behavior, which may help the development of mental training for improving sports performance.
Chun-Hao Wang
National Cheng Kung University
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This page is a summary of: Neural Correlates of Expert Behavior During a Domain-Specific Attentional Cueing Task in Badminton Players, Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, September 2017, Human Kinetics,
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.2016-0335.
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