Figure 1. Executive function performance of highly talented soccer players as compared to amateur soccer players.
Higher z scores are indicating better performance as compared to a mean z-score of zero in the amateur soccer player group. SSRT = stop signal reaction time; MRT = mean reaction time on go trials of the Stop Signal task; % errors = percentage of errors of the Stop Signal task; Alerting = Alerting attention; Orienting = orienting attention; Executive = executive attention; Visuospatial-S = visuospatial sketchpad; visuospatial-CE = visuospatial central executive.