Cognitive characteristics of badminton players

Abstract

Badminton is considered one of the three most hard sports game in relation to physical loadings and is the fastest one among the so-called "racquet sports". According to its characteristics, badminton refers to a game complex coordination sport, it is characterized by the following features: speed of movement, speed of thinking, speed of execution of techniques. The analysis of the psychophysiological state of badminton players forms an idea of the objective state of the players. The general functional state of the organism is an idea of the functional system that controls a specific type of activity and characterizes the level of functioning of individual systems of the organism (sensory, intellectual, motor) or the athlete's organism as a whole. However, there is no idea about the nature of the manifestation of cognitive functions in qualified badminton players.