COGNITION IN ELITE FOOTBALLERS STUDY PART 3

                                                              

• Stage 3 occurs after the action has been carried out and the player perceives the outcome which is directly coupled to the player’s intention for action and implies an assessment of its level of success
• The assessment activates the brain’s reward systems and makes the player either more or less likely to repeat the same action in similar future situations
• Degree of behavioral modification depends on the difference between the expected and actual outcome of the action so large discrepancies will lead to more changes
• Feedback is implemented via modifications of the cognitive/neural settings that are involved in stages 1 and 2 such as leading changes in the orienting behavior at stage 1 or different response tendencies at stage 2
• Stage 3 feeds back into new cycles of perception/action providing opportunities for learning, and modifies the perceptual processing, decision making and motor execution in future play situations

With the general descriptions of each stage laid out, the next posts of this series will go into great detail on each of them where it gets pretty deep and full on but you don't learn if you're not challenged to thinking deeper!