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Journal Article
Level of play and coach-rated game intelligence are related to performance on design fluency in elite soccer players
2020
Overview
Executive brain functions are innate mechanisms for regulating behavior. While the impact of suboptimal executive functions has been characterized in patients, their contribution to individual success has not been elucidated. We set out to understand how executive functions relate to successful human behavior by examining their relation to game intelligence in sport - the ability to read a game and quickly adapt the behavior. In elite soccer players (n = 51), those playing in national teams (national team players) significantly outperformed those only playing at premier league level (premier league players) in
Design Fluency
(
DF
), a complex visuo-spatial executive function test that includes measures of creativity and cognitive flexibility. Their result showed a moderate correlation with coach rated game intelligence, remained also when correcting for low level cognitive capacity and was most evident when considering cognitive flexibility.
DF
capacity also correlated with number of assists made during the season but not with number of made goals during the same period, linking the fast planning of several steps in
DF
to fast planning of several steps in the soccer game. Altogether, our data suggests that
DF
capacity relates to success in soccer both on a subjective and on an objective level.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
