Expertise effects on the perceptual and cognitive tasks of indoor rock climbing

MM Whitaker, GD Pointon, MR Tarampi, KM Rand - Memory & Cognition, 2020 - Springer
Memory & Cognition, 2020Springer
Experts' cognitive abilities adapt in response to the challenges they face in order to produce
elite-level performance. Expert athletes, in particular, must integrate their motor capabilities
with their cognitive and perceptual processes. Indoor rock climbers are particularly unique
athletes in that much of the challenge they face is to accurately perceive and consolidate
multiple movements into manageable action plans. In the current study, we investigated how
climbers' level of expertise influenced their perception of action capabilities, visual memory …
Abstract
Experts’ cognitive abilities adapt in response to the challenges they face in order to produce elite-level performance. Expert athletes, in particular, must integrate their motor capabilities with their cognitive and perceptual processes. Indoor rock climbers are particularly unique athletes in that much of the challenge they face is to accurately perceive and consolidate multiple movements into manageable action plans. In the current study, we investigated how climbers’ level of expertise influenced their perception of action capabilities, visual memory of holds, and memory of planned and performed motor sequences. In Experiment 1, climbers judged their perceived capability to perform single climbing moves and then attempted each movement. Skilled climbers were less confident, but perceived their action capabilities more accurately than less skilled climbers. In Experiment 2, climbers recalled holds on a route, as well as predicted and recalled move sequences before and after climbing, respectively. Expertise was positively associated with visual memory performance as well as planned and recalled motor sequence accuracy. Together, these findings contribute to our knowledge of motor expertise and suggest that motor expert’s ability to accurately estimate their action capabilities may underlie complex cognitive processes in their domain of expertise.
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