This study investigates the influence of specific soccer training with the non-dominant leg on mental rotation performance of 20 adolescent soccer players between 10 and 11 years of age. While the experimental group performed soccer specific tasks only with the non-dominant foot once a week for 10 weeks, the control group absolved the same exercises with the dominant foot for the same period of time. Both groups performed a mental rotation task and shot, dribbling and ball control tests before and after the 10 week intervention. The most relevant result was that the experimental group showed a significantly larger increase in mental rotation ability than the control group.
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Pietsch, S., & Jansen, P. (2018). Laterality-specific training improves mental rotation performance in young soccer players. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(FEB). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00220
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