Elite athletes don't just have more amazing bodies than the general public -- their brains may, in some ways, be more amazing, too. A new study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that the brains of elite athletes have greater visual perceptual and cognitive abilities than those of non-athlete college students -- that is, they're better at learning to track objects moving at a fast speed. "Clearly, mental processing and learning skills are key to the excellent performance of the professional athletes. However, it is unclear whether this superior learning ability is unique to professional athletes, and moreover whether these are innate skills that led them to be selected by these teams,...
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