Attackers are supposed to take advantage of producing deceptive actions in competitive ball
sports, particularly in penalty situations. We conducted a scoping review of the experimental …

Research in penalty kicking has primarily focused on spatial decision making, while
temporal decision making has largely been neglected, even though it is as critical for …

Expert performers in fast-ball and combat sports continuously interact with their opponents
and, if they are to be successful, adapt behaviour in order to gain an advantage. For …

Elite sport offers a suitable setting to understand the ability to anticipate future events—a
phenomenon that is central to animal life. Critically, however, whilst anticipation in sport has …

Diving saves are the main duty of football goalkeepers. Few biomechanical investigations of
dive techniques have been conducted, none in a sport-specific environment. The present …

Only few studies have addressed how soccer goalkeepers adapt to both the spatial and
temporal constraints while trying to stop a penalty kick. Moreover, research on penalty kicks …

We investigated whether in an in-situ collision avoidance experiment cyclists regulate
braking by adopting an affordance-based control strategy. Within an affordance-based …

This study examined the processes of perceptual-motor calibration/recalibration of defensive
football players in a 1-vs-1 scenario. Ankle weights were used to reduce the acceleration …

In the present study we investigated expert and novice football (ie, soccer) goalkeepers'
three stages of perceiving changes in open play situations—detection, localization, and …

Background The effects of audiences in boosting the performance of the home team (ie,
home advantage) in sports like soccer have been studied extensively. However, much less …