Cultural variation in elite athletes: does elite cognitive-perceptual skill always converge?

Greg Downey

doi:10.5096/ASCS200912

Cultural variation in elite athletes: does elite cognitive-perceptual skill always converge?

Greg Downey

Department of Anthropology

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Abstract

Anthropologists have not participated extensively in the cognitive science synthesis for a host of reasons, including internal conflicts in the discipline and profound reservations about the ways that cultural differences have been modeled in psychology, neuroscience, and other contributors to cognitive science. This paper proposes a skills-based model for culture that overcomes some of the problems inherent in the treatment of culture as shared information. Athletes offer excellent cases studies for how skill acquisition, like enculturation, affects the human nervous system. In addition, cultural differences in playing styles of the same sport, such as distinctive ways of playing rugby, demonstrate how varying solution strategies to similar athletic problems produce distinctive skill profiles.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASCS09
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science
Editors	Wayne Christensen, Elizabeth Schier, John Sutton
Place of Publication	North Ryde, NSW
Publisher	Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
Pages	72-80
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9780646529189
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5096/ASCS200912
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009) - Sydney Duration: 30 Sep 2009 → 2 Oct 2009

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Conference	Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009)
City	Sydney
Period	30/09/09 → 2/10/09

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Copyright 2009 by the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, ASCS09 : Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.

Keywords

neuroanthropology
skill acquisition
elite performance
perceptual skill
culture and cognition

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Downey, G 2010, Cultural variation in elite athletes: does elite cognitive-perceptual skill always converge? in W Christensen, E Schier & J Sutton (eds), ASCS09: proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, North Ryde, NSW, pp. 72-80, Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science (9th : 2009), Sydney, 30/09/09. https://doi.org/10.5096/ASCS200912

Cultural variation in elite athletes : does elite cognitive-perceptual skill always converge? / Downey, Greg.

ASCS09: proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science. ed. / Wayne Christensen; Elizabeth Schier; John Sutton. North Ryde, NSW : Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, 2010. p. 72-80.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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