Article: The effect of nonregulatory stimuli on the triple jump approach run.

The powerful nature of visual information in guiding the actions of humans and other animals (Gibson, 1950, 1966, 1979) has been documented in various ecologically valid tasks. The long jump is one such task that demonstrates using visual guidance in performing the approach run (Berg, Wade, & Greet, 1994; Glize & Laurent, 1993; Hay, 1988; Hay & Koh, 1988; Lee et al., 1982). The major finding associated with these studies is that footfall position variability increases during the approach rtm and then decreases rapidly as the jumper approaches the board. This finding has been widely interpreted as evidence that vision is used to direct the jumpers to accurately hit the ...

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