Cognitive Training in Soccer: Where Is the Key Point? - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.5 No.2, February 2018

Cognitive Training in Soccer: Where Is the Key Point? ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104333 997 Downloads 5,572 Views Citations

Author(s)

Matteo Giuriato¹, Nicola Lovecchio²

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Human Science, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy.
²Department Biomedical Science for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.

ABSTRACT

Cognitive skills and executive function, in the last years become a golden reference to increase attention social skills and sport success. In particular, soccer is an open skills sport that requires a constant demand of cognitive skills and executive function because the unstable environment defines the decision making. Thus, modern soccer trainer changes the approach avoiding massive conditional exercises and introducing small side games. The purpose of this paper is to investigate what the cognitive training is and what could be an adequate stimulation to improve the executive function in soccer player.

KEYWORDS

Executive Function, Cognitive Function, Soccer, Decision Making

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Giuriato, M. and Lovecchio, N. (2018) Cognitive Training in Soccer: Where Is the Key Point?. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-6. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104333.

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