Sports activities can be divided into open-skilled and close-skilled according to their contexts and predictabilities. Compared with closed-skilled sports, open-skilled sports are more complex and involve more cognitive demands and challenges, and individuals can have more opportunities to practice interference inhibition for such sports' attributes. Long-term interference inhibition training can optimize attention resource allocation, promote the efficient organization of neural networks, improve the neural processing efficiency of individuals in cognitive tasks, and strengthen top-down cognitive control, resulting in improved interference inhibition. Future studies can further explore the impact of open-ended skill sports on individual’s abilities to interference inhibition from the aspects of individual differences, dose effects, and special group interventions.

Ma Chao, Yang Zhenyu, Xiao Zifan, Zhao Zhongxiang. The Influence of Open-skilled Sports on Individual’s Interference Inhibition Abilities. Frontiers in Sport Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 7: 19-24. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSR.2023.050704.

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