Journal of Motor Behavior back issues from September 2007:
Introduction to the theme issue: perception, cognition, action, and skilled performance.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... Our goal in this theme issue is to examine the relationship between perception, cognition, action, and skilled performance. In recent years, numerous researchers have attempted to further the understanding of the complex interactions between perception, cognition, and action during ...
Advance visual information, awareness, and anticipation skill.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined 13 skilled, 13 recreational, and 11 novice players' awareness of the advance visual information that they used to judge tennis serve direction. Participants viewed video clips of serve actions under 5 conditions of spatial occlusion. The authors assessed ...
Pickup of essential kinematics underpins expert perception of movement patterns.(Report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. In a series of 3 experiments, the authors examined the ability of badminton players of different skill levels (12 experts and 12 nonexperts) to anticipate the direction of badminton strokes. Participants viewed either film or point-light displays under a range of temporal or ...
Perception-action coupling and anticipatory performance in baseball batting.(Report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined 10 expert and 10 novice baseball batters' ability to distinguish between a fastball and a change-up in a virtual environment. They used 2 different response modes: (a) an uncoupled response in which the batters verbally predicted the type of pitch and (b) a ...
Performing under pressure: the effects of physiological arousal, cognitive anxiety, and gaze control in biathlon.(Report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The authors provide evidence that choking under pressure is associated with changes in visual attention. Ten elite biathlon shooters were tested under separate low-pressure (LP) and high-pressure (HP) conditions after exercising on a cycle ergometer at individually prescribed ...
Mechanisms underpinning successful decision making in skilled youth soccer players: an analysis of visual search behaviors.(Report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined the complex interactions between perception, cognition, and expertise by using a film-based decision-making test. They stratified 40 youth soccer players (aged 13.0-15.8 years) into groups by using a within-task criterion. They assigned the players to ...
Identification of interindividual and intraindividual movement patterns in handball players of varying expertise levels.(Report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined the movement patterns of 5 left-handed handball players (ranging from beginner to national level) who threw a handball to different sections of a goal as if a goalkeeper were present. The authors used time-continuous, 3-dimensional kinematic data to assess ...
Effects of experience on the coordination of internally and externally timed soccer kicks.
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The authors investigated differences in the soccer kick between 8 experienced and 10 less experienced participants in 2 different task conditions (kicking a stationary ball or a moving ball at a target). The experienced participants were more accurate than their less experienced ...
Pattern stability and error correction during in-phase and antiphase four-ball juggling.(Report)
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT. The authors studied pattern stability and error correction during in-phase and antiphase 4-ball fountain juggling. To obtain ball trajectories, they made and digitized high-speed film recordings of 4 highly skilled participants juggling at 3 different heights (and thus different ...