Are expert athletes 'expert' in the cognitive laboratory? A meta-analytic review of cognition and sport expertise

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Athletics and executive functioning: How athletic participation and sport type correlate with cognitive performance (2014, background): “On the other hand, proponents of the “cognitive component skills” approach assert that athletes improve in specific cognitive skills, which are present in non-sport contexts and can be measured in the laboratory (Voss et al., 2010).”
3D-Multiple Object Tracking training task improves passing decision-making accuracy in soccer players (2016, result): “These studies support the claim that the cognitive component approach captures a fundamental cognitive skill associated with competitive sport training (Voss et al., 2010).”
Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review (2020, background): “…experts’ performance, in particular on sport-specific cognitive processes (Musculus, Ruggeri, Raab, & Lobinger, 2019; Raab, Masters, & Maxwell, 2005; Voss et al., 2010), and others have taken a more general approach, focussing on cognitive processes that are common to all sports (Voss et al.,…”
Exercise and children's cognition: The role of exercise characteristics and a place for metacognition (2015, unknown): “57,58”