doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00929 Sport neuroscience revisited (?): a commentary

published review (Walsh, 2014) has described sport and the performance of elite athletes as an excellent opportunity for Cognitive Neuroscience to overcome the barrier between lab-based research and applicability in the real world. Indeed, it is a worrying phenomenon that the radical development of cognitive neuro-science in the last few years has only been accompanied by unfulfilled promises for applications to real world domains, such as education and psychiatry. On the other hand, research within sport science and its fostered child, sport psychology, keeps providing us with strong evidence tha