Cognition plays a key role in sports performance. This meta-analytic review synthesizes
research that examined the relationship between cognitive functions, skills, and sports …

The literature base regarding the development of sporting talent is extensive, and includes
empirical articles, reviews, position papers, academic books, governing body documents …

What explains the acquisition of exceptional human performance? Does a focus on
intensive specialized practice facilitate excellence, or is a multidisciplinary practice …

The health, fitness and other advantages of youth sports participation are well recognised.
However, there are considerable challenges for all stakeholders involved—especially youth …

Why are some people more skilled in complex domains than other people? According to
one prominent view, individual differences in performance largely reflect individual …

Research on expertise, talent identification and development has tended to be mono-
disciplinary, typically adopting genocentric or environmentalist positions, with an overriding …

Twenty-one years ago, Ericsson, Krampe and Tesch-Romer published their seminal work
expounding the notion of deliberate practice in explaining the development of expertise …

Participation in sports offers both short-term and long-term physical and psychosocial
benefits for children and adolescents. However, an overemphasis on competitive success in …

Background Does early specialization facilitate later athletic excellence, or is early
diversification better? This is a longstanding theoretical controversy in sports science and …

The developmental practice patterns leading to the highest levels of success remain a
subject of debate. The present study purposes to extend the body of empirical research by …