Coincidence Anticipation and Dynamic Visual Acuity in Young Adolescents

Abstract

Research involving college-age students and women fast pitch softball players indicated that coincidence anticipation and dynamic visual acuity are different visual abilities. This study used an alternative procedure to measure dynamic visual acuity to re-examine their relationship. Coincidence anticipation and dynamic visual acuity were measured in 24 young adolescents (12 boys, 12 girls) 11 to 14 years of age. During the dynamic visual acuity procedure, the subject tracked an object of a constant size while the researcher manipulated the object's velocity. Analysis indicated that they are different visual abilities. Findings indicated that the dynamic visual acuity of boys was significantly better than that of girls, and coincidence anticipation between boys and girls did not differ.

Sex Differences in Accuracy and Precision When Judging Time to Arrival: Data from Two Internet Studies

“…We were able to identify seven reports from which we could obtain a value for Cohen's effect size (d) and found that it ranged from 0.24 to 0.93. The lowest value came from Millslagle (2004), the only one of these seven studies that failed to find a significant sex difference. The other six reports (Brady, 1996;Overdorf, Schweighardt, Page, & McGrath, 2004;Rodrigues, Vasconcelos, Barreiros, Barbosa, & Trifilio, 2009;Williams & Jasiewicz, 2001;Wrisberg, Hardy, & Beitel, 1982;Wrisberg, Paul, & Ragsdale, 1979) found that males recorded significantly lower AE scores than females with d ranging from 0.40 to 0.93.…”

Functional asymmetry in a simple coincidence‐anticipation task: Effects of handedness

“…The results have revealed that competence on such tasks increases linearly with age, reaching an asymptote at 14 to 15 years (Dorfman, 1977). However, whereas some CA studies have been conducted with adults (Benguigui, Ripoll, & Broderick, 2003;Coker, 2006;Lobjois et al, 2006;Millslagle, 2000) and with children (Benguigui et al, 2004;Hart, Smith, & DeChant, 2005;Millslagle, 2003), little work has been conducted with 15-to 18-year-olds (Dunham, 1989). Gender has a marked influence on CA learning and performance, with males being consistently more accurate and less variable than females Williams, Katene, Fleming, & Bennett, 2002).…”

“…Variables such as age (Benguigui, Broderick, & Ripoll, 2004;Dorfman, 1977;Lobjois, Benguigui, & Bertsch, 2005;Benguigui, & Bertsch, 2006), gender (Brady, 1996;Les, Katene, & Fleming, 2002;Millslagle, 2004;, and manual asymmetry (Cockerill, van Zyl, & Nevill, 1988;Coker, 2004) have been widely investigated in the literature on coincident-anticipation (CA) tasks. The results have revealed that competence on such tasks increases linearly with age, reaching an asymptote at 14 to 15 years (Dorfman, 1977).…”

Manual asymmetry in a complex coincidence-anticipation task: Handedness and gender effects

“…While males have been found to be more accurate and less variable than women (Les et al, 2002;, there is also empirical evidence showing no gender effects (Harrold & Kozar, 2002;Millslagle, 2004;.…”

“…Variables such as age (Benguigui, Broderick, & Ripoll, 2004;Lobjois, Benguigui, & Bertsch, 2005, stimulus speed (Coker, 2003;Harrold & Kozar, 2002;Teixeira, Lima, & Franzoni, 2005), gender (Les, Katene, & Fleming, 2002;Millslagle, 2004;, motorresponse complexity (Teixeira, 2006;Williams, Jasiewicz, & Simmons, 2001), and manual asymmetry (Cockerill, van Zyl, & Nevill, 1988;Coker, 2004) have been studied currently in the coincidenceanticipation literature.…”