Soccer athletes are superior to non-athletes at perceiving soccer-specific and non-sport specific human biological motion

T Romeas, J Faubert - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have shown that athletes' domain specific perceptual-cognitive expertise can
transfer to everyday tasks. Here we assessed the perceptual-cognitive expertise of athletes …

Visual and skill effects on soccer passing performance, kinematics, and outcome estimations

I Basevitch, G Tenenbaum, WM Land… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The role of visual information and action representations in executing a motor task was
examined from a mental representations approach. High-skill (n= 20) and low-skill (n= 20) …

Decision-making while passing and visual search strategy during ball receiving in team sport play

T Natsuhara, T Kato, M Nakayama… - … and motor skills, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In many team sports, in which environmental change is constant, athletes selectively
allocate attention between the approaching ball and other players, and constantly …

Perceptual-cognitive skills and their interaction as a function of task constraints in soccer

A Roca, PR Ford, AP McRobert… - Journal of Sport and …, 2013 - journals.humankinetics.com
The ability to anticipate and to make decisions is crucial to skilled performance in many
sports. We examined the role of and interaction between the different perceptual-cognitive …

Long-and short-term plastic modeling of action prediction abilities in volleyball

C Urgesi, MM Savonitto, F Fabbro, SM Aglioti - Psychological research, 2012 - Springer
Athletes show superior abilities not only in executing complex actions, but also in
anticipating others' moves. Here, we explored how visual and motor experiences contribute …

[HTML][HTML] The perceptual cognitive processes underpinning skilled performance in volleyball: Evidence from eye-movements and verbal reports of thinking involving an …

J Afonso, J Garganta, A Mcrobert… - Journal of sports …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
An extensive body of work has focused on the processes underpinning perceptual-cognitive
expertise. The majority of researchers have used film-based simulations to capture superior …

Predicting domain-specific actions in expert table tennis players activates the semantic brain network

Y Wang, Y Lu, Y Deng, N Gu, T Parviainen, C Zhou - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Motor expertise acquired during long-term training in sports enables top athletes to predict
the outcomes of domain-specific actions better than nonexperts do. However, whether …

Skill level and graphical detail shape perceptual judgments in tennis

F Loffing, T Wilkes, N Hagemann - Perception, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Reducing the representation of human actions from normal video to biological motion
animation in perceptual tasks means removing a number of visual features from the scenery …

The relationship between expertise in sports, visuospatial, and basic cognitive skills

H Heppe, A Kohler, MT Fleddermann… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Team sports place high demands on visuospatial and other cognitive skills. However, there
is a lack of research on visuospatial skills of elite athletes and there are heterogeneous …

Do experts see it in slow motion? Altered timing of action simulation uncovers domain-specific perceptual processing in expert athletes

CM Vicario, S Makris, C Urgesi - Psychological Research, 2017 - Springer
Accurate encoding of the spatio-temporal properties of others' actions is essential for the
successful implementation of daily activities and, even more, for successful sportive …