Traditional neuropsychological testing does not predict motor-cognitive test performance
- The ecological validity of neuropsychological testing (NT) has been questioned in the sports environment. A frequent criticism is that NT, mostly consisting of pen and paper or digital assessments, lacks relevant bodily movement. This study aimed to identify the determinants of a newly developed testing battery integrating both cognitive and motor demands. Twenty active individuals (25 ± 3 years, 11 males) completed the new motor-cognitive testing battery (MC), traditional NT (Stroop test, Trail Making test, Digit Span test) and isolated assessments of motor function (MF; Y-balance test, 20m-sprint, counter-movement jump). Kendal’s tau and partial Spearman correlations were used to detect associations between MC and NT/MF. Except for two items (Reactive Agility A and counter-movement jump; Run-Decide and sprint time; r = 0.37, p < 0.05), MC was not related to MF. Similarly, MC and NT were mostly unrelated, even when controlling for the two significant motor covariates (p > 0.05). The only MC item with (weak to moderate) associations to NT was the Memory Span test (Digit Span backwards and composite; r = 0.43–0.54, p < 0.05). In sum, motor-cognitive function appears to be largely independent from its two assumed components NT and MF and may represent a new parameter in performance diagnostics.
Author: | Jan WilkeORCiDGND, Oliver Vogel, Sandra Ungricht |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-564214 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207393 |
ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of environmental research and public health |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/10/11 |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/10/11 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/10/22 |
Tag: | neurocognition; reaction; sports performance; vision |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | art. 7393 |
Page Number: | 9 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 9 |
Note: | ©2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
HeBIS-PPN: | 472850768 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport | |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |