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Skilled tennis players exhibit superior mental representations and cognitive performance compared to novices. This suggests a stronger connection between long-term memory representations and working memory processing underlies improved athletic skill.

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  • Sports Science
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Motor Learning

Background:

  • Superior performance in skilled athletes is often attributed to perceptual-cognitive mechanisms.
  • Limited research exists on the link between mental representations and cognitive performance across skill levels.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the functional connection between mental representations (long-term memory) and cognitive information processing (working memory) in tennis players.
  • To analyze mental representation structure and cognitive performance based on player skill level.

Main Methods:

  • Structural dimensional analysis of mental representations for a tennis serve.
  • Cognition and movement chronometry to assess cognitive performance in working memory.
  • Comparison between 20 skilled and 25 novice male tennis players.

Main Results:

  • Skilled players demonstrated higher similarity to a standard representation structure than novices.
  • Skilled players exhibited greater accuracy and faster response times in cognitive tasks.
  • A significant positive correlation was found between representational similarity and cognitive accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • Skilled tennis players possess superior mental representations and cognitive processing abilities.
  • The functional connection between long-term and working memory is a key factor in perceptual-cognitive skill improvement.
  • Mental representation structure is positively associated with cognitive information processing accuracy.