Response suppression and decision-making in association football referees.

Inhibitory control, a cornerstone of executive function, is hypothesized to play a pivotal role in sports decision-making by regulating information processing and behavioural control. This study explores association football referees' inhibitory control and decision-making across different levels of expertise. Utilizing the Stop-Signal Task (SST) to assess response suppression and a video-based decision-making task, we investigated whether higher-level referees would demonstrate superior performance in both domains.