INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE, VISUAL REACTION TIME AND AGILITY PARAMETERS ON FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Year 2023, Volume: 21 Issue: 3, 107 - 116, 30.09.2023

Okan Demir , Fatih Kıyıcı

https://doi.org/10.33689/spormetre.1255170

Abstract

The research aims to examine the relationship between cognitive performance, visual reaction time and agility parameters on football players. Twenty- five football players with an average age of 18-20 years (18.16 ± 0.68), who have been active for at least five years and who are in the Turkish U19 Super League participated in the study from the Turkish U19 Super League participated. Body composition (BODPOD), agility (Illinois test), visual reaction time (Witty Sem Microgate) and cognitive performance (Stroop Test) of the football players were measured. SPSS v23 was used in the analysis of the data and the significance level was taken as p<0.05. The relationship between normally distributed data was examined with the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. According to the analysis of the data a significant positive correlation was found between cognitive performance and visual reaction time on football players. When the relationship between cognitive performance and agility parameter was examined, no significant relationship was found between the two concepts. There was a significant correlation and a negative correlation between visual reaction time and agility parameters. As a result, when height, body mass index and body fat ratio values increase on football players, visual reaction time increases and performance decreases. Likewise, when the body fat ratio increases, agility time increases and performance decreases.

Keywords

Football, Cognitive Performance, Agility, Reaction, Training

Project Number

SYL-2022-10202

INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE, VISUAL REACTION TIME AND AGILITY PARAMETERS ON FOOTBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

Araştırmanın amacı, futbolcularda bilişsel performans, görsel reaksiyon zamanı ve çeviklik ile parametreleri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesidir. Araştırmaya 18-20 (18,16 ± 0,68) yaş ortalamasına sahip, en az beş yıldır aktif futbolcu olan, Türkiye U19 Süper liginde yer alan 25 futbolcu katılmıştır. Futbolcuların vücut kompozisyonu (BODPOD), çeviklik (Illinois testi), görsel reaksiyon zamanı (Witty Sem Microgate) ve bilişsel performansları (Stroop Testi) ölçülmüştür. Verilerin analizinde SPSS v23 kullanılmış ve anlamlılık düzeyi p<0.05 olarak alınmıştır. Normal dağılım gösteren veriler arasındaki ilişki Pearson Korelasyon Katsayısı ile incelenmiştir. Elde edilen verilerin analiz sonuçlarına göre futbolcularda, bilişsel performans ile görsel reaksiyon zamanı arasında anlamlı bir ilişki ve arasında pozitif yönlü bir korelasyon saptanmıştır. (p<0.05). Bilişsel performansın çeviklik parametresi ile ilişkisi incelendiğinde iki kavram arasında anlamlı bir ilişki bulunamamıştır. (p>0.05) Görsel reaksiyon zamanı ve çeviklik parametrelerinin arasındaki anlamlı düzeyde ilişki ve ve negatif yönlü bir korelasyon saptanmıştır. (p<0.05) Ayrıca görsel reaksiyon zamanı test değeri ile boy uzunluğu, beden kitle indeksi, vücut yağ oranı arasında ve çeviklik test değeri- vücut yağ oranı arasında anlamlı düzeyde pozitif yönlü ilişki elde edilmiştir. Boy uzunluğu, beden kitle indeksi ve vücut yağ oranı değerleri arttığında görsel reaksiyon test skoru (süresi) artmakta, reaksiyon zamanı performansı düşmektedir. Paralel olarak vücut yağ oranı arttığında çeviklik test değeri artmakta ve çeviklik performansı düşmektedir.

Keywords

Futbol, Bilişsel Performans, Çeviklik, Reaksiyon, Antrenman

Supporting Institution

Atatürk Üniversitesi

Project Number

SYL-2022-10202

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