“We want to see if this attentional training truly has an impact on the decision-making skills that we can measure, by showing them some standardized video sequences,” he said. Every athlete has to complete an hour-long testing session and 10 training sessions over three weeks. The experimental group receives cognitive training, while the control group does a ‘fake task’ to make them believe they are being trained. These athletes are randomly divided into either the experimental or control group. Harenberg said he has enrolled approximately 40 athletes. The study is currently in the middle of the three-week training phase, which will be followed by another week of testing. Testing began the second week of this semester. It can also involve the use of a 3-D television set and a 3-D projector. The study also displays the cognitive training either by the use of a head-mounted display or by the Oculus Rift, 3-D or virtual reality glasses. They are instructed to follow numerous objects in motion and identify them among more objects. NeuroTracker software challenges the participants to track multiple moving images dynamically. Parts of this study is the replication of that particular study that has been published, but we do that with a larger sample size, which obviously is important.” “There is research evidence that tentatively suggests that. “Our hypothesis is certainly that the attentional training will lead to a quicker, more accurate decision-making,” Harenberg said. Oliver Höner at the University of Tübingen in Germany. Harenberg had the idea for the study at a conference in October with his colleague Dr. Sebastian Harenberg, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, became interested in cognitive training roughly three years ago. By using NeuroTracker, a cognitive training software, and standardized video sequences, the goal of the study is to test if attentional training has an impact on decision-making skills in soccer players. Such a scenario is extremely common in a soccer game.įaculty and students are conducting studies in the Sport and Exercise Psychology Laboratory on cognitive training, with a focus on collegiate athletics. When a midfielder is dribbling down the sidelines on a breakaway with a defender approaching from behind and up to four defenders in their vision, they have three options of forwards making runs in different directions to pass the ball to.
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