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Psychol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To explore the correlation between visual\u2013spatial working memory capacity and its subcomponents (object working memory capacity, spatial working memory capacity) and 3V2 offensive tactical decision-making performance in soccer players.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Sixty male soccer players with national second-class or higher athletic level were selected as participants. The change detection paradigm was used to measure the response time and accuracy of visual\u2013spatial working memory capacity, object working memory capacity, and spatial working memory capacity. A sport specific situational test was applied to evaluate the response time and rationality of 3\u202fV2 offensive tactical decision-making. Participants were divided into high-capacity and low-capacity groups by K-means clustering, and statistical analyses were performed using Mann\u2013Whitney\n                      <jats:italic>U<\/jats:italic>\n                      test and partial Spearman correlation analysis.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The high visual\u2013spatial working memory capacity group showed significantly shorter response time (\n                      <jats:italic>Z<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f\u22123.944,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001) and significantly lower decision rationality (\n                      <jats:italic>Z<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f\u22122.135,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.033) in 3\u202fV2 offensive tactical decision-making than the low-capacity group. Similar intergroup differences were observed in object and spatial working memory capacity. After controlling for confounding variables, the response times of visual\u2013spatial, object and spatial working memory capacities were significantly positively correlated with the response time of 3\u202fV2 offensive tactical decision-making (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt;\u202f0.01) and decision rationality (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt;\u202f0.05). However, no significant correlations were found between the accuracy of the three working memory types and decision-making performance (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;gt;0.05).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The response time of visual\u2013spatial working memory and its subcomponents is a key indicator for predicting 3\u202fV2 offensive tactical decision making performance in soccer players. This study verifies the speed-accuracy trade off effect in sports cognition.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1866618","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,25]],"date-time":"2026-06-25T23:10:18Z","timestamp":1782429018000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A study on the correlation between visual\u2013spatial working memory capacity and decision-making performance in 3V2 offensive tactics of soccer players"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Yanan","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Sports Training, Tianjin University of Sport","place":["Tianjin, China"]},{"name":"School of Physical Education, Zhengzhou Normal University","place":["Zhengzhou, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peng","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physical Education, Shandong University of Technology","place":["Zibo, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2493","DOI":"10.1007\/s10055-023-00822-y","article-title":"Visual working memory in immersive visualization: a change detection experiment and an image-computable model","volume":"27","author":"Bassano","year":"2023","journal-title":"Virtual Reality"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1562462","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1562462","article-title":"The relationship between visual spatial working memory capacity of tennis players and visual information processing of offensive tactical decision-making","volume":"17","author":"Cheng","year":"2026","journal-title":"Front. 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