Team cognition (TC) in sport: Foundations, development, and performance implications

IF 3.3 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102927

Omer Eldadi, Gershon Tenenbaum

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Abstract

This review synthesizes research on Team Cognition (TC) in sports, examining how these collective cognitive frameworks enable coordinated performance in high-stakes environments. TC facilitates team effectiveness by providing shared knowledge of tasks, roles, and interaction patterns, enabling implicit coordination when time constraints prohibit explicit communication. Tracing the evolution from cognitive psychology foundations to contemporary applications, we integrate theoretical perspectives with empirical evidence across five interconnected dimensions: cognitive, emotional, neurological, social, and developmental. Our analysis spans multiple sport contexts, including basketball, volleyball, soccer, and emerging domains like esports, while drawing complementary insights from military and performing arts settings. The proposed conceptual framework illustrates how TC develop through the interplay between deliberate practice and structured communication, operating through task-related and team-related pathways that enhance coordination, anticipatory capabilities, and team cohesion. The integrative approach clarifies conceptual distinctions between related team cognition constructs and identifies critical knowledge gaps, advancing understanding of how TC contribute to improved performance outcomes. The review concludes by proposing future research directions in developmental trajectories, technological integration, virtual team dynamics, neuroscientific foundations, and applied interventions, offering valuable guidance for researchers and practitioners seeking to enhance team performance in sports.

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体育运动中的团队认知：基础、发展与绩效影响

本综述综合了体育运动中团队认知（TC）的研究，研究了这些集体认知框架如何在高风险环境中实现协调表现。TC通过提供任务、角色和交互模式的共享知识来促进团队效率，当时间限制禁止显式通信时，支持隐式协调。追溯从认知心理学基础到当代应用的演变，我们将理论观点与经验证据整合到五个相互关联的维度：认知、情感、神经、社会和发展。我们的分析涵盖了多种运动环境，包括篮球、排球、足球和电子竞技等新兴领域，同时从军事和表演艺术环境中获得互补的见解。所提出的概念框架说明了技术训练如何通过刻意练习和结构化沟通之间的相互作用而发展，并通过与任务相关和与团队相关的途径来增强协调、预期能力和团队凝聚力。综合方法澄清了相关团队认知结构之间的概念差异，并确定了关键的知识差距，促进了对技术创新如何有助于改善绩效结果的理解。本文从发展轨迹、技术整合、虚拟团队动力学、神经科学基础和应用干预等方面提出了未来的研究方向，为提高体育团队绩效的研究人员和实践者提供了有价值的指导。

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

172

审稿时长

69 days

期刊介绍： Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication will present results from high quality empirical research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, commentaries concerning already published PSE papers or topics of general interest for PSE readers, protocol papers for trials, and reports of professional practice (which will need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description). The CONSORT guidelines consort-statement need to be followed for protocol papers for trials; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the CONSORT checklist. For meta-analysis, the PRISMA prisma-statement guidelines should be followed; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the PRISMA checklist. For systematic reviews it is recommended that the PRISMA guidelines are followed, although it is not compulsory. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.