Visual perception in football ("soccer" in the U.S.) is increasingly becoming a key area of interest for researchers and practitioners.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurrent knowledge of gaze behavior in football has primarily originated from eye-tracking research in laboratory settings. Using eye-tracking with elite players in a real-world 11 v 11 football game, this exploratory case study examined the visual fixations of midfield players in the Norwegian premier league. A total of 2,832 fixations by five players, aged 17-23 years ( = 19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study aimed to investigate the impact of self-generated and explicitly acquired contextual knowledge of teammates' defensive qualities on anticipatory performance in a complex sensorimotor task. Twelve expert and twelve near-expert handball players were examined in a domain-specific defence task presented in an immersive virtual-reality environment. In two-thirds of the trials, 1:1 situations (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn team sports, peripheral vision might be useful to simultaneously monitor movements of opponents and teammates. Until now, however, little is known about the perceptual-cognitive processes underlying peripheral vision in a sporting task. Therefore, we used a mixed-methods approach with in-situ decision making (3 vs.
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