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- Title
DETERMINANTS OF COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN COMPETITORS OF SPORTS KARATE.
- Authors
Nešić, Milan; Fratrić, Franja; Banić, Branislav; Goranović, Kosta
- Abstract
Successful karate depends on several factors mutually integrated in a karate athlete as a multidimensional anthropological system. Cognitive abilities are necessary for the successful performance sports karate, we need to start from the existence of the problem of general cognitive (intellectual) abilities depending on: the state of the reception system, decoding processor, the structuring and research of incoming information, the processor for serial analysis of information and processor for the simultaneous analysis of information. The performed empirical research had the aim of establishing the status of cognitive features of Serbian karatists and indicating the importance of their specific identification as an important factor for successful realization of the training process in sports karate. The current study was realized as an empirical transversal study, with the implementation of a survey method, on a sample of 100 male karatists between the ages of 18-27. The model of cognitive abilities applied in this study was in accordance with the metric features of cognitive measuring instruments, the KOG-3 battery of tests. The factor structure of the intellectual abilities of the participants was analyzed on the basis of all the information given by matrix of significant main components. On the basis of Momirovic's B6 criteria, one latent dimension (54.45% of the common variance) was isolated, and which could be marked as a general cognitive factor.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE ability; KARATE; RECEPTION theory; EMPIRICAL research; ATHLETES; INFORMATION theory
- Publication
Facta Universitatis: Series Physical Education & Sport, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
1451-740X
- Publication type
Article