Exposing an “Intangible” Cognitive Skill among Collegiate Football Players: Enhanced Interference Control

Exposing an “Intangible” Cognitive Skill among Collegiate Football Players: Enhanced Interference Control

American football is played in a chaotic visual environment filled with relevant and distracting information. We investigated the hypothesis that collegiate football players show exceptional skill at shielding their response execution from the interfering effects of distraction (interference control...

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Main Authors: Scott A. Wylie, Theodore R. Bashore, Nelleke C. Van Wouwe, Emily J. Mason, Kevin D. John, Joseph S. Neimat, Brandon A. Ally
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
interference control
flanker task
football
inhibition
attention
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00049/full

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