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Two authors independently screened records, extracted data, and assessed risk of bias. Findings were synthesized narratively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Fourteen eligible reports representing 11 unique participant cohorts were included from 973 records. Interventions primarily targeted attentional\/gaze control, cue utilization\/anticipation, decision-making\/response selection, or executive-control\/cognitive-motor integration. The most consistent favorable effects were observed for cognitive-motor interventions, with moderate-to-large interaction effects reported for several dribbling, sprint, change-of-direction, and selected response-control outcomes. Attentional\/gaze-control evidence was limited to one small non-randomized cohort, findings for cue-utilization and anticipation training were mixed, and decision-making\/response-selection evidence remained limited to two heterogeneous independent cohorts. Evidence was concentrated on trained-task and near-transfer outcomes; retention, representative game-based transfer, and competitive-match transfer remained uncommon and did not show consistent intervention-specific benefits.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Basketball perceptual-cognitive training may improve proximal cognitive-motor and sport-performance outcomes in youth and pediatric players, particularly when executive-control demands are integrated with basketball-relevant motor tasks. However, the current evidence does not establish generalized improvements in basketball decision-making, sustained learning, or transfer to competitive performance. It also does not support conclusions regarding age- or maturation-specific responsiveness. Larger prospectively registered trials with independent samples, longer retention periods, and representative game- and match-based outcomes are needed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Systematic Review Registration<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:ext-link>https:\/\/osf.io<\/jats:ext-link>\n                      , Open Science Framework, unique identifier: 4zwvt.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fped.2026.1972276","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,23]],"date-time":"2026-09-23T06:19:34Z","timestamp":1790144374000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Perceptual-cognitive training in basketball: effects on cognitive-motor performance, decision-making, and sport-specific transfer across youth 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