On the dynamic information underlying visual anticipation skill

Huys, Raoul; Smeeton, Nicholas J.; Hodges, Nicola J.; Beek, Peter J.; Williams, A. Mark

doi:10.3758/pp.70.7.1217

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“…Findings contradict the strategy of researchers who have investigated the kinematic differences between movements in isolation (e.g., Huys et al, 2008) and those who have separately examined the kinematic information that observers fixate upon during anticipation ). In the current study, we have shown that the visual search behavior of the observer is linked to, and interacts with, the kinematics of the movement being observed.…”

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The coupling between gaze behavior and opponent kinematics during anticipation of badminton shots

Alder

Ford

Causer

et al. 2014

Human Movement Science

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a b s t r a c tPurpose: We examined links between the kinematics of an opponent's actions and the visual search behaviors of badminton players responding to those actions. Method: A kinematic analysis of international standard badminton players (n = 4) was undertaken as they completed a range of serves. Video of these players serving was used to create a life-size temporal occlusion test to measure anticipation responses. Expert (n = 8) and novice (n = 8) badminton players anticipated serve location while wearing an eye movement registration system. Results: During the execution phase of the opponent's movement, the kinematic analysis showed between-shot differences in distance traveled and peak acceleration at the shoulder, elbow, wrist and racket. Experts were more accurate at responding to the serves compared to novice players. Expert players fixated on the kinematic locations that were most discriminating between serve types more frequently and for a longer duration compared to novice players. Moreover, players were generally more accurate at responding to serves when they fixated vision upon the discriminating arm and racket kinematics.

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The coupling between gaze behavior and opponent kinematics during anticipation of badminton shots

Alder

Ford

Causer

et al. 2014

Human Movement Science

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“…This latter issue was recently investigated by Huys and colleagues (Huys, Smeeton, Hodges, Beek, & Williams, 2008;Huys, Cañal-Bruland, Hagemann, Beek, Smeeton, & Williams, 2009). These authors departed from the perspective founded in synergetics that high-dimensional (self-organizing) systems can often be effectively approximated by a limited number of so-called macroscopic structures (or order parameters; cf.…”

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Anticipation of tennis-shot direction from whole-body movement: The role of movement amplitude and dynamics

Smeeton

Huys²

2011

Human Movement Science

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While recent studies indicate that observers are able to use dynamic information to anticipate whole-body actions like tennis shots, it is less clear whether the action's amplitude may also allow for anticipation. We therefore examined the role of movement dynamics and amplitude for the anticipation of tennis shot direction. In a previous study, movement dynamics and amplitude were separated from the kinematics of tennis players' forehand groundstrokes. In the present study, these were manipulated and tennis shots were simulated. Three conditions were created in which shot direction differences were either preserved or removed: Dynamics-PresentAmplitude-Present (D P A P ), Dynamics-Present-Amplitude-Absent (D P A A ), and Dynamics-Absent-Amplitude-Present (D A A P ). Nineteen low-skill and fifteen intermediate-skill tennis players watched the simulated shots and predicted shot direction from movements prior to ball-racket contact only. Percent of correctly predicted shots per condition was measured. On average, both groups' performance was superior when the dynamics were present (the D P A P and D P A A conditions) compared to when it was absent (the D A A P condition). However, the intermediateskill players performed above chance independent of amplitude differences in shots (i.e., both the D P A P and D P A A conditions), whereas the low-skill group only performed above chance when amplitude differences were absent (the D P A A condition). These results suggest that the movement's dynamics but not their amplitude provides information from which tennis-shot direction can be anticipated.Furthermore, the successful extraction of dynamical information may be hampered by amplitude differences in a skill dependent manner.Movement Amplitude and Dynamics in Anticipation 3

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“…Alongside verbal reports (e.g., McRobert, Williams, Ward, & Eccles, 2009), point light displays (Ward, Williams, & Bennett, 2002), and biomechanical motion analyses (e.g., Huys, Smeeton, Hodges, Beek, & Williams, 2008), past research has been based particularly on eye movement analyses and spatial occlusion experiments. These will be described in more detail below.…”

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Visual perception in fencing: Do the eye movements of fencers represent their information pickup?

Hagemann

Schorer

Cañal‐Bruland³

et al. 2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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On the dynamic information underlying visual anticipation skill

Cited by 86 publications

References 39 publications

The coupling between gaze behavior and opponent kinematics during anticipation of badminton shots

The coupling between gaze behavior and opponent kinematics during anticipation of badminton shots

Anticipation of tennis-shot direction from whole-body movement: The role of movement amplitude and dynamics

Visual perception in fencing: Do the eye movements of fencers represent their information pickup?

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