**4. Discussion**

The results presented in this study showed significant difference in the variable of anthropometric profile age (sing = 0.029), in elite and non-elite athletes of beach volleyball (**Table 1**). According Guedes [16] states that the chronological age and age defined by the birth of an individual that is determined by the civil calendar, thus the difference between the two groups is simply chronological. With the data of the above presented variables, there is a need that during a process for a selection of athletes for the Beach Volleyball modality, especially in relation to one of the variables the height, it can be observed a certain evolution, where it demonstrates that the stature inside of the anthropometric profile and a main measure for a selection process of this modality [17]. According to Gabbett, Georgieff and Domrow the anthropometric profile characteristic of the variable height is of fundamental importance for the performance of attack and blocking that occur during a beach volleyball game. In the variable of the anthropometric profile with relation to the weight of the elite athletes and not elite of the beach volleyball, with the variations, it can have or not a negative association for accomplishment of some tasks to be accomplished in the beach volleyball modality [1, 2]. When analyzing the cognitive performance of elite and non-elite beach volleyball athletes (**Table 2**) in the overall score in the variables where these results are given through the speed in milliseconds (ms) that are logarithmic values normalized to base 10, with validity from 0.76 to 0.89: Detection (Simple Reaction Time); Identification (Choice Reaction Time); One Back Speed (Working Memory); One Back Acuracy (Short Term Memory); evaluated by the CogState® computerized test battery (Brief Battery). It was verified in (**Table 2**) that significant differences occurred in the analyzed variables: Detection (Simple Reaction Time); Identification (Choice Reaction Time); evaluated by the CogState® computerized test battery (Brief Battery). When analyzing the variables: detec (sing = 0.029), ident (sing = 0.029), we can observe that elite athletes, have a better cognitive performance, in relation to non- elite athletes in these two variables, once, in the test results of these two variables, they are classified in a lower score as better performance. Where the variable (Detec) has its cognitive domain the (attention) and the variable (Ident) has its cognitive domain the (psychomotor function) since we analyzed the cognition of the greatest athletes of beach volleyball in Brazil and the world, being these world and Olympic champions of this category. According to Santos [18]. The processes of perception and attention depend on some factors, among them, the conscious ability to select the most essential sources of information and the quantity of stimuli. For SCHMIDT (1993) the concept of attention is related to the "information processing capabilities that put limits on the skillful human performance". Baddeley and Hitch in [19]. postulated a theory that supports the main current on (Working Memory) from an assumption that (Working Memory) has a command center, which is the Central Executive System (CES), responsible for integrating new information with data stored in long-term memory [20]. Several studies show that the (Working Memory) is one of the last cognitions to consolidate, but also one of the first to suffer degeneration in brain structures, being the frontal lobe the most affected bringing cognitive losses [21, 22]. In view of these facts, it is necessary to research about the importance of these variables to improve the performance of these athletes.

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