EFFECTS AND OPTIMISATION OF COGNITIVE SKILLS TRAINING ON DECISION-MAKING ABILITY AND TACTICAL EXECUTION IN ATHLETES

Abstract

Cognitive skills play an important role in the technical and tactical level of athletes on the field of play, and cognitive skills, as an embodiment of cognitive psychological ability, have an important impact on athletes in offensive tactical decision-making. Therefore, this paper will explore the influence of cognitive skills on athletes' offensive tactical decision-making at the level of cognitive psychology. It will also investigate the effects of two functional sub-components of cognitive psychology---object working memory capacity and spatial working memory capacity on athletes' offensive tactical decision-making. The experimental results show that cognitive working memory capacity has no significant effect on the rationality of athletes' offensive tactical decisions but has a significant effect on the agility of athletes' offensive tactical decisions. Athletes with high cognitive skills concentrate their attention, gaze longer, get more effective information, and the reaction time of the athletes' offensive tactical decision-making is also prolonged. Athletes with higher cognitive skills will be more favourable to retrieve and store a large amount of visual information, which will promote the effective decision-making of athletes' attack and improve the rationality of athletes' offensive tactical decisions. Based on the results of this study, it can provide some references for coaches to explore the training methods of athletes' tactical decision-making ability.