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Key Perceptual-Cognitive Demands in Rugby

Rugby is an intense, high-contact sport that requires players to maintain focus, situational awareness, and quick decision-making even under extreme physical fatigue. Here’s how NeuroTracker training can support these essential cognitive skills.

  1. Maintaining Situational Awareness Under Fatigue: In the later stages of a rugby match, players’ cognitive abilities and situational awareness tend to decline due to physical fatigue. This can lead to lapses in focus and slower reaction times, making players more vulnerable to tackles and reducing effective team coordination.
  2. Tracking Multiple Moving Objects: Rugby players need to keep track of teammates, opponents, and the ball simultaneously. This multi-object tracking skill is crucial for both offensive and defensive play, enabling players to identify gaps in the defense or anticipate tackles.
  3. Rapid Decision-Making in High-Pressure Scenarios: During a rugby match, players frequently make split-second decisions on whether to pass, run, or kick the ball, often while being closely pursued by opponents.
  4. Spatial Awareness and Anticipation: Players require keen spatial awareness to navigate the field, identify scoring opportunities, and position themselves effectively, whether in open play or set pieces.
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Divided attention
Inhibition
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Working memory
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Focus
Cognitive function
Executive function
Sustained attention
Divided attention
Inhibition
Response control
Working memory
Processing speed
Brain plasticity
Focus
Cognitive function
Executive function
Sustained attention
Divided attention
Inhibition
Response control
Working memory
Processing speed
Brain plasticity
Focus
Movement skills
Reaction time
Sport skills
Motion perception
Learning capacity
Decision making
Visual working memory
Perceptual cognitive functions
Visual attention
Movement skills
Reaction time
Sport skills
Motion perception
Learning capacity
Decision making
Visual working memory
Perceptual cognitive functions
Visual attention
Movement skills
Reaction time
Sport skills
Motion perception
Learning capacity
Decision making
Visual working memory
Perceptual cognitive functions
Visual attention

How NeuroTracker Training Benefits Rugby Players

NeuroTracker training addresses these demands by enhancing specific cognitive abilities, particularly under conditions of fatigue:

  • Improved Resilience to Cognitive Fatigue: Research has shown that NeuroTracker training helps players maintain cognitive performance and situational awareness even when fatigued. This resilience can prevent costly mistakes and lapses in focus, especially during the critical final stages of a match.
  • Enhanced Multi-Object Tracking and Awareness: NeuroTracker improves the ability to track multiple players and the ball in real-time, helping players stay aware of teammates’ and opponents’ positions for better decision-making on the field.
  • Faster Decision-Making and Reduced Reaction Times: NeuroTracker’s cognitive exercises boost processing speed, allowing players to react faster and make accurate decisions in high-pressure moments, such as evading tackles or executing precise passes.
  • Heightened Spatial Awareness and Positioning: NeuroTracker training develops spatial awareness, assisting players in maintaining field positioning, recognizing scoring opportunities, and adjusting quickly to evolving play scenarios.

Key Takeaway

NeuroTracker training equips rugby players with the cognitive endurance to stay sharp even under fatigue, along with enhanced multi-object tracking and situational awareness. These improvements translate into better decision-making, reduced vulnerability to errors, and stronger performance, especially in the intense final moments of a match.

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Athletes
Sep 2013

Performance and Muscle Architecture Comparisons Between Starters and Nonstarters in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Women's Soccer

To compare performance and muscle architecture changes in starters and nonstarters during a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's soccer season.

28 females (av. 20 years old) were assessed on NeuroTracker baselines, vertical jump power, repeated line drills and reaction time at preseason, midseason, and postseason. Muscle architecture changes using ultrasonography were assessed at preseason and postseason.

Both starters and non-starters showed similar status or improvements on all assessments across the season, except for line drills performance, which showed greater improvements for starters. NeuroTracker and reaction time performance improved regardless of playtime. Results of muscle architecture analysis indicated that practice training alone provide sufficient stimulus for improving muscle quality during the competitive season. Overall starters did not display significant benefits from competition over athletes who performed training only.

Athletes
Aug 2023

NeuroTracker baseline reveal stroboscopic vision training does not improve perceptual-cognitive skills, but may aid anticipation skills.

Repeated stroboscopic vision training improves anticipation skill without changing perceptual-cognitive skills in soccer players
Applied Neuropsychology

To analyze the repeated effect of stroboscopic vision training on perceptual-cognitive and anticipation skills in soccer players.

28 male soccer players randomized into two groups: Stroboscopic vision training and control groups. The trained group completed 8-weeks of stroboscopic training. Pre post assessments were completed for both groups, which included NeuroTracker baselines and assessments decision-making and anticipation skills.

Both groups improved by similar amounts in NeuroTracker baselines and decision-making. However the trained group showed a larger improvement in anticipation skill than the control group. The findings suggest that stroboscopic vision training does not improve perceptual-cognitive functions or decision-making, but may aid anticipation skills in soccer athletes.

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Nutrition
Aug 2023

Evaluating the effects of PeakATP® supplementation on visuomotor reaction time and cognitive function following high-intensity sprint exercise
Frontiers in Nutrition

To examine the effects of 14-days ATP supplementation (adenosine 5′-triphosphate) on NeuroTracker visual tracking speed, reaction time, mood and cognition in a double-blind crossover study.

22 adults were randomized to either an active PeakATP® group or a placebo control group and supplemented for 14-days. They then tested on 3 minutes of maximum intensity cycling. Pre, immediately post, and 60-minutes post, all participants completed a NeuroTracker baseline, a visuomotor reaction test (Dynavision D2), a Profile of Mood States Questionnaire and a cognition assessment (ANAM). After another 14 days of no supplementation, the active and control groups were then reversed and the whole procedure was repeated.

NeuroTracker results improved on the second testing procedure, however average differences between active and control groups were negligible. No significant interactions were found on the other assessments, apart from reaction time performance, which improved meaningfully with post ATP supplementation. The results suggest ATP may help decrease fatigue related effects from intense bouts of exercise, but not higher-level cognitive functions.

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