Efficacy of a perceptive-cognitive training to improve ice-hockey performance

The Neurotracker training requires participants to follow and identify holographic tennis balls moving randomly in a 3D environment. The company developing this training, CogniSens, inc. claims that it can improve sports performance by enhancing, among others, selective attention and working memory. This research project tests the efficacy of the NeuroTracker training to improve sports performance in ice-hockey. More specifically, major junior ice-hockey players will complete a battery of tests measuring selective attention, working memory, time perception, pattern recognition, temporal equivalence in mental imagery and ice-hockey performance per se. They will then train on the NeuroTracker for 18 weeks, before completing the battery of tests again.

Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Grondin

Student:

Daniel Fortin-Guichard

Partner:

Alain Vigneault Consultants

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

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