Namely the notion that practice conditions should closely recreate key situations of sports performance.
The researchers found the NeuroTracker soccer study to be of special interest because it raised questions about the traditional thinking on transfer in interactive sports. In this context, NeuroTracker is leading the way in the Holy Grail of cognitive sports science research. The absence of evidence for far transfer in sports has been revealed by other recent meta-reviews, which also included novice athlete populations. The remaining study was with NeuroTracker, which ‘showed a reliable positive effect’ - a 15% improvement in passing decision-making accuracy in competitive soccer play. However, when it came to far transfer, only 3 studies qualified for review. What Was FoundĪround 60% of the studies showed off-court performance enhancement in tests similar to the training activity (near-transfer), which included both of the NeuroTracker studies. They also identified the problem that, ‘.transfer, be it near, further or far, is mostly not studied empirically’. This is what the researchers referred to as ‘.the gold-standard.the key consideration for the relevance of perceptual-cognitive training in sports’. The main goal of the review was to see if evidence for ‘far-transfer’ existed, that is, training on a task which leads to improvement in abilities very different from the training itself. All of the studies were then evaluated by four independent expert reviewers, who examined them for evidence on training and transfer effects, according to strict criteria. Of these 16, 2 NeuroTracker studies were selected, 1 of which was the only study deemed to have an ideal sample size of athletes. Using rigorous benchmarks for methodological quality, they narrowed a total of 1692 perceptual-cognitive training studies down to just 16.
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