Association between sports expertise and visual attention in male and female soccer players.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Visual attention plays a crucial role in daily living and in sports, affecting an athlete's performance and thus, potentially, the outcome of a match. However, studies assessing the association between the level of sports expertise and visual attention have yielded mixed results. This study was conducted to examine whether visual attention could be developed with increased sports expertise, and whether visual attention differed between male athletes and female athletes.

Methods

A total of 128 participants were included in this study: 64 first-level national soccer athletes recruited from college soccer teams (considered elite athletes; 32 men and 32 women with similar soccer performance requirements and training experience), and 64 physical education college stude

SUBMITTER: Jin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10590570 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature