Bartseva, Ksenia; Likhanov, Maxim; Tsigeman, Elina; Alenina, Evgenia; Reznichenko, Ivan; Soldatova, Elena and Kovas, Yulia. 2024. No spatial advantage in adolescent hockey players? Exploring measure specificity and masked effects. Intelligence, 102, 101805. ISSN 0160-2896 [Article]

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The study examines how intensive hockey training is linked with spatial ability and academic performance. Participants were hockey players from top junior teams (N = 225, mean age = 14.25, all boys) and their un- selected peers (N = 278, mean age = 15.47, all boys). Compared to the unselected group, hockey players showed lower results in 10 small-scale spatial tests (Cohen's d ranging from 0.42 to 1.04), Raven's Progressive Matrices (d = 0.41), and 12 school subjects (d for the sum of grades = 1.17). The differences in spatial ability remained significant after controlling for Raven's (d varying from 0.26 to 1.03). The absence of spatial advantage in athletes suggests that effects of sports on cognition are complex: spatial ability facet-specific, sport-specific, professional and intensity level-specific. Moreover, these effects might be confounded by differences in academic engagement, investment of effort and psychological and physiological effects of intensive sports engagement.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2023.101805
Additional Information:	Funding: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation [grant number 23-18-00142].
Data Access Statement:	The authors do not have permission to share data.
Keywords:	Spatial ability, Spatial cognition, Ice hockey, Adolescent athletes, Academic achievement
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 9 December 2023 Accepted 26 December 2023 Published Online January 2024 Published
Item ID:	34564
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2024 09:33
Last Modified:	04 Jan 2024 09:43
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34564

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