The influence of blurred visual stimuli on decision-making in sport
24 September 2024
A critical feature of successful sport performance is perceptual-cognitive skills, such as decision-making. Expert athletes are able to detect key visual cues to anticipate the likely outcome of their opponent’s actions and select a response under severe time constraints. The aim of this study is to determine the visual characteristics that underpin this process, by, examining the influence of varying visual stimuli on decision-making performance while watching netball footage.
Requirements
- Participants must meet criteria for all participants, and either skilled or novice netballers.
- ALL participants:
- • Female
- • Aged 18-40
- • Normal/corrected to normal vision with contact lenses
- • Free of musculoskeletal injury
- • No known neurological condition
- NOVICE netballers
- • No recreational netball experience in the previous 12 months
- • Not currently training in a team-invasion sport and no previous high-level experience (e.g., in football, basketball)
- SKILLED netballers
- • Training and competing in netball for minimum 3 hours/week
- • Competing at senior level for a minimum of 2 years (e.g., university BUCS/national/local leagues).
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Ethical approval
Research Ethics Committee Reference Number: 23/SPS/054
About the researcher
This experiment will contribute to a series of studies resulting in a PhD thesis.
