Visual Search Strategies of Soccer Players in One-on-One Defensive Situations on the Field

Nagano, Tomohisa; Kato, Takaaki; Fukuda, Tadahiko

doi:10.2466/pms.99.3.968-974

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“…By foveating the door edges, the participants were better able to attend to the doors’ positions, while short fixation durations allowed the participants to process each door’s location more frequently. The differences in spatio-temporal patterns of fixation while walking or using a wheelchair seem to be similar to those between elite and non-elite athletes (Kato and Fukuda, 2002; Martell and Vickers, 2004; Nagano et al, 2004; Panchuk and Vickers, 2011), in that non-elite participants showed shorter fixation and more frequent saccades at critical moments.…”

Section: Gaze Behavior During Adaptive Locomotionmentioning

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Visuomotor Control of Human Adaptive Locomotion: Understanding the Anticipatory Nature

Higuchi¹

2013

Front. Psychol.

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To maintain balance during locomotion, the central nervous system (CNS) accommodates changes in the constraints of spatial environment (e.g., existence of an obstacle or changes in the surface properties). Locomotion while modifying the basic movement patterns in response to such constraints is referred to as adaptive locomotion. The most powerful means of ensuring balance during adaptive locomotion is to visually perceive the environmental properties at a distance and modify the movement patterns in an anticipatory manner to avoid perturbation altogether. For this reason, visuomotor control of adaptive locomotion is characterized, at least in part, by its anticipatory nature. The purpose of the present article is to review the relevant studies which revealed the anticipatory nature of the visuomotor control of adaptive locomotion. The anticipatory locomotor adjustments for stationary and changeable environment, as well as the spatio-temporal patterns of gaze behavior to support the anticipatory locomotor adjustments are described. Such description will clearly show that anticipatory locomotor adjustments are initiated when an object of interest (e.g., a goal or obstacle) still exists in far space. This review also show that, as a prerequisite of anticipatory locomotor adjustments, environmental properties are accurately perceived from a distance in relation to individual’s action capabilities.

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Visuomotor Control of Human Adaptive Locomotion: Understanding the Anticipatory Nature

Higuchi¹

2013

Front. Psychol.

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“…Drivers devote attention both to their own car and to the traffic around them, pedestrians focus on their path while avoiding obstacles [1], cooks devote attention to multiple pots and ingredients, athletes focus on the ball and on the opposing player [2], and lifeguards monitor children playing in different locations. Despite the ubiquitous need to distribute attention across multiple objects in our daily behavior, relatively few studies (e.g., [3], [4], [5], [6]) have examined the strategies people use when devoting attention to multiple objects simultaneously, and even fewer (e.g., [7]) have explored individual differences in the breadth of visual attention across these situations.…”

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Fixation Strategy Influences the Ability to Focus Attention on Two Spatially Separate Objects

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The ability to devote attention simultaneously to multiple visual objects plays an important role in domains ranging from everyday activities to the workplace. Yet, no studies have systematically explored the fixation strategies that optimize attention to two spatially distinct objects. Assuming the two objects require attention nearly simultaneously, subjects either could fixate one object or they could fixate between the objects. Studies measuring the breadth of attention have focused almost exclusively on the former strategy, by having subjects simultaneously perform one attention-demanding task at fixation and another in the periphery. We compared performance when one object was at fixation and the other was in the periphery to a condition in which both objects were in the periphery and subjects fixated between them. Performance was better with two peripheral stimuli than with one central and one peripheral stimulus, meaning that a strategy of fixating between stimuli permitted greater attention breadth. Consistent with the idea that both measures tap attention breadth, sport experts consistently outperformed novices with both fixation strategies. Our findings suggest a way to improve performance when observers must pay attention to multiple objects across spatial regions. We discuss possible explanations for this performance advantage.

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“…When a stressful situation occurs, the individual tries to solve the problem using various coping methods or by escaping from the stress source (Nagano, Kato, & Fukuda, 2004). One of the mechanisms of coping with stress is cognitive flexibility, which is defined as the ability to shift attention from one aspect to another (Hüttermann, Memmert, Simons, & Bock, 2013).…”

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Examination of Cognitive Flexibility Levels of Young Individual and Team Sport Athletes

Aslan

2018

JETS

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The purpose of this study was to compare the level of cognitive flexibility of individual and team athletes who are students. The study included a total of 237 volunteer athletes, comprising 140 males (59.1%) and 97 females (40.9%) with a mean age of 18.98 ± 2.18 years (range, 16-26 years) who were licensed to participate in individual and team sports. Study data were collected using the Cognitive Flexibility Scale developed by Martin and Rubin (1995), which consists of 12 items in total. International validity and reliability studies were conducted by Martin and Rubin, and Turkish validity and reliability studies were conducted by Çelikkaleli on high school students (Çelikkaleli, 2014). The scores of the Cognitive Flexibility Scale were found to be higher in the team sports athletes compared with the individual sports athletes (p<0.05). No difference was determined between the levels of cognitive flexibility in male and female athletes. The results indicated that the cognitive flexibility levels of team athletes are higher than those of individual athletes.

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Visual Search Strategies of Soccer Players in One-on-One Defensive Situations on the Field

Cited by 37 publications

References 5 publications

Visuomotor Control of Human Adaptive Locomotion: Understanding the Anticipatory Nature

Visuomotor Control of Human Adaptive Locomotion: Understanding the Anticipatory Nature

Fixation Strategy Influences the Ability to Focus Attention on Two Spatially Separate Objects

Examination of Cognitive Flexibility Levels of Young Individual and Team Sport Athletes

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