“Attention, working-memory control, working-memory capacity, and sport performance” – Dr Robert Vaughan and Dr Sylvain Laborde

Previous work is yet to provide a cognitive measure of attention using multiple measures to capture the complexity of this process (i.e. adapting attentional resources via greater visual search sensitivity and ability to ignore distractor patterns),

– Vaughan and Laborde (242)

This paper by Dr Robert Vaughan and Dr Sylvain Laborde investigates the mediating effect of working-memory-control and working-memory-capacity on the attention-performance relationship in relation to athlete expertise.

Understanding this relationship may help to design sport-specific training programmes targeting them in order to improve performance.

– Vaughan and Laborde (248)

Dr Vaughan and Dr Laborde’s article can be downloaded here via York St John institutional access.