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Neurosci Biobehav Rev
January 2025
School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TU, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Play in humans and other animals is widespread and intuitive to recognise. Creative, unstructured play is difficult to quantify, but games direct play towards a specific goal and have defined rules, mechanics and rewards. To date, games have been under-utilised in human and animal behavioural neuroscience.
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January 2025
Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Split, Split, Croatia.
This study aimed to examine the differences in physical performance when winning and losing in UEFA Champions League (UCL) matches. Data were collected using an optical tracking system from all UCL matches (n = 125) in the 2022/23 season. A linear mixed model was used to examine the differences in physical performance in won and lost matches while controlling for match location, team formation, opponent quality, playing time, red cards, and between-player, -team, and -match variations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Sports Sci
January 2025
School of Sports Training, Chengdu Sport University, Sichuan, China.
The pace of play, a critical tactical element in basketball, significantly influences offensive and defensive strategies. This study aimed to identify statistical indicators that differentiate winners from losers across varying game paces using a sample of 90 Olympic men's basketball games from 2016, 2021, and 2024. Games were categorized as fast-paced or slow-paced via clustering algorithms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDev Cogn Neurosci
January 2025
Developmental and Educational Psychology Department, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
This preregistered study examined the neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and subsequent trust behavior in relation to experiences of victimization averaged over two years in late childhood. This study used a sample of children with prospective longitudinal data on peer victimization over the past two years (n = 83, 49.4 % girls, M = 10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Sports Act Living
December 2024
Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Introduction: This study was planned to assess the association between serve efficacy and match outcome, and to investigate which factors are associated with serve efficacy in high-level male and female Sitting Volleyball players.
Methods: The study sample was comprised of a total of 3,664 serving actions, performed during the 2020 Paralympic Games and the 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championship. For each serving action, we considered serve efficacy (i.
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