Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of high and low cognitive load along with decision practice on the acquisition of perceptual-motor skills.
Methods: The participants were 36 students who were selected as available samples. For this purpose, 36 students were selected as available and were randomly divided into high cognitive load, low cognitive load, and control groups. At the pre-test, a video clip of 25 badminton serves was shown, which was occluded at the moment of the racket-ball contact. Participants anticipated the direction of the badminton long serve shots and the decision time was measured at the same time. Then, the experimental group performed decision training in the acquisition phase, and the control group just anticipated the direction of the shots. 48 hours, the post-test was performed
Results: The results of the present study showed that the decision-training group with low cognitive load performed better in anticipation and decision-making than the decision-training group with high cognitive load and the control group, but the decision-training group with high cognitive load did not differ significantly from the control group.
conclusion: High cognitive load leads to disturbances in the acquisition of perceptual-motor skills in beginners.
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