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Basic attentional theories derived from laboratory dual-task experiments show potential applicability for assessing and improving task performance in real-world physical and sporting activities.
This review highlights the theoretical and applied importance of attention theories, particularly from dual-task experiments, for understanding task performance in real-world conditions like sports and physical fitness.
May guide attention training in athletes; leaves open validation in competitive field settings.
Attention is the ability to extract task-relevant information and reject irrelevant information in order to avoid excessive information processing in the nervous system, and influences task performance in daily life including physical and sporting activities. Basic attentional phenomena at the behavioral and neural levels have recently been employed as measures of attentional functions to examine the effects of exercise training and motor learning in the real world. However, these basic phenomena have been demonstrated in strictly manipulated laboratory experiments; therefore, it currently remains unclear whether they may be applied to the examination of attentional functions in real-world conditions. We herein briefly review basic attentional theories derived from a number of dual-task experiments and discuss their applicability to a more realistic world.
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Kida et al. (2017) conducted a review in Attention and task performance. Basic attentional theories derived from laboratory dual-task experiments show potential applicability for assessing and improving task performance in real-world physical and sporting activities.
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