Advancing judgment and decision-making research in sport psychology by using the body as an informant in embodied choices

Questioning the validity and reliability of using a video-based test to assess decision making among female and male water polo players

“…35 This approach stresses the bidirectionality of perception and action, the need for representative experimental and practice designs, and the importance of integrating cognitive and motor processes. 35,36 In the current study, the video-based test took place outside the true sport setting and did not require participants to actually perform the action corresponding to their selected response. It was thus void of the interactions of the players with their environment as well as the coupling between perception and action.…”

Unifying Rules for Simplified Information Processing in Action – Less is More

“…A central challenge in complex actions is how to manage the constant stream of information in the context of task-relevant input and output (Cisek & Pastor-Bernier, 2014;Gordon et al, 2021;Voigt et al, 2023). Consequently, mechanisms that serve complex actions must facilitate rapid processing of sensory information, specifying and re-specifying SIMPLIFIED INFORMATION PROCESSING IN ACTION 9 available movements in parallel while at the same time evaluating the options and deciding whether to persist with a given movement, to adjust the movement, or to switch to a new movement (Cisek & Pastor-Bernier, 2014).…”

“…Advancing the individual application of simple rules, we assume that if both movement selection and movement execution are guided by simple rules, then cognitive effort throughout the entire action should be lowest. Importantly, we conceptualize actions as SIMPLIFIED INFORMATION PROCESSING IN ACTION 14 an intertwined process during which perception, selection, and execution inform each other bidirectionally (Gordon et al, 2021;Raab, 2017;Voigt et al, 2023). As such, simplifying information processing for one component (e.g., movement selection) may benefit not only movement selection but also movement execution (see Figure 1).…”

“…In line with this, we argue that simplified information processing for movement execution may allow individuals to initiate movements later, because less time is required to process information for movement selection (for preliminary support for this claim see . On the other hand, dynamic situations might require individuals to initiate the movement before having made the final selection to either buy time or to exploit an option that would otherwise disappear (Gordon et al, 2021;Voigt et al, 2023). In these situations, movement selection and movement execution truly run in parallel, and, thus, simplified information processing may help to prevent working memory from being overloaded.…”

Exploring the effects of 3D-360°VR and 2D viewing modes on gaze behavior, head excursion, and workload during a boxing specific anticipation task

“…This emphasizes that athletes act and react within the constraints of their physical body and of their environment, as they generate embodied choices ( Raab and Araújo, 2019 ). As such, a paradigm which seeks to evaluate or train perceptual-cognitive skills should incorporate practice designs that are more representative, encompassing perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes, while maintaining perception-action coupling ( Pinder et al, 2011 ; Voigt et al, 2023 ). A framework proposed by Hadlow et al (2018) pointed out three main areas to optimize perceptual-cognitive test designs: stimulus correspondence, action correspondence, and targeted perceptual function.…”