The Impact of Orienteering Sports in Universities on the Psychological Cognition of College Students

Orienteering, as an emerging sport, has developed rapidly in China. In addition to the continuous emergence of a large number of orienteering clubs, major universities across the country are also gradually popularizing and offering this course. Through research, it has been found that the mental health status of contemporary college students is not optimistic, especially for some students whose cognitive abilities such as attention, perception, and thinking need to be improved. Orienteering can effectively improve the attention ability of college students, with a significant promoting effect on attention allocation, attention breadth, and attention stability. Orienteering is beneficial for the development of sensory perception ability among college students, with significant improvements and improvements in time perception, distance perception, and height perception.