Executive Functions and Domain-Specific Cognitive Skills in Climbers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Connections of Executive Functions, Cognitive Skills, and Climbing
1.2. Transfer of Cognitive Skills
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Measurement of Executive Functions
2.3. Measurement of Domain-Specific Cognitive Skills
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Executive Functions
3.2. Domain-Specific Cognitive Skills
3.3. Relation between Executive Functions and Domain-Specific Cognitive Skills
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Novices | Experts | t | p-Value | Cohens d | |||
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Mean | SD | M | SD | ||||
Age | 25.3 | 1.6 | 22.22 | 4.1 | 2.072 | 0.054 | 1.01 |
Height | 174.1 | 8.0 | 174.33 | 5.8 | 0.324 | 0.946 | 0.01 |
Weight | 69.5 | 13.2 | 67.67 | 9.6 | −0.068 | 0.750 | 0.08 |
Training hours/week | 1.6 | 0.5 | 2.67 | 1.2 | −2.364 | 0.030 * | −1.19 |
Test | Parameter | Novices | Experts | ||
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M | SD | M | SD | ||
Stroop Test | Congruent | 731.00 | 44.94 | 706.44 | 59.40 |
Incongruent | 700.30 | 44.57 | 695.11 | 75.36 | |
Stroop Effect | −58.30 | 47.94 | −16.67 | 62.97 | |
CBT | Span | 6.50 | 0.81 | 5.33 | 0.82 |
dTMT | Time (Part A) | 35.66 | 8.64 | 34.94 | 4.85 |
Time (Part B) | 41.35 | 8.50 | 41.98 | 7.59 | |
WCST | Total errors | 10.60 | 2.69 | 9.33 | 4.94 |
Preservation Errors | 6.80 | 1.66 | 6.56 | 2.75 | |
Non-Preservation Errors | 3.80 | 2.23 | 2.78 | 2.48 |
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