Development of a Response-Recognition Training Film in Tennis

Haskins, Mary Jane

doi:10.2466/pms.1965.21.1.207

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“…In parallel to Damron (1955) and Londerlee's (1967) research on pattern recognition, Haskins (1965) conducted a pioneering, yet infrequently cited, study that focused upon an arguably more central aspect of performance in tennis-anticipation. He attempted to determine whether a temporal-occlusion training paradigm could be used to improve the ability to anticipate the direction of an opponent's return shot.…”

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Training Perceptual-Cognitive Skills: Can Sport Psychology Research Inform Military Decision Training?

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Military Psychology

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Section: Training Perceptual-cognitive Skills In Sportmentioning

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Training Perceptual-Cognitive Skills: Can Sport Psychology Research Inform Military Decision Training?

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“…To date, some possible training routines to specifically improve anticipatory skill in racket sports have been proposed (e.g. Burroughs, 1984;Day, 1980;Haskins, 1965;Maschette, 1980), but the relative effectiveness of these various programmes still needs to be demonstrated empirically.…”

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Anticipation in squash: Differences in advance cue utilization between expert and novice players

Abernethy

1990

Journal of Sports Sciences

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The time of occurrence and spatial location of the advance cues used to anticipate the direction and force of an opponent's stroke in squash were examined using a film task. This task, designed to stimulate the normal perceptual display of the defensive player, consisted of two discrete parts, each containing 160 individual stroke sequences (trials). In the first part of the film task, the display was occluded at different time intervals throughout the development of the opponent's stroke and the 16 expert and 20 novice subjects had to predict both the direction (down-wall or cross-court) and force (drive or drop shot) of the opponent's stroke. In the second part of the film task, visibility to selected advance cues was occluded by placing opaque mats on the film surface. Across all of the film task conditions experts were superior to novices in predicting the event outcome from the information available, highlighting the important contribution anticipatory skills make to expert performance in this sport. Analysis of lateral (direction) error showed that the most critical time periods for extracting information about stroke direction are the periods between 160-80 ms prior to racket-ball contact and the period of extended ball flight arising at least 80 ms after contact. Whereas both groups were attuned to this ball flight information, only the experts were capable of picking up information from the early part of the opponent's actions. This early information appeared to be provided by the opposing player's arm action. Similar time periods were found to be also important for the prediction of stroke depth, but in this case both experts and novices were similar in their cue dependence.

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“…Skilled performers' superiority over less skilled athletes is most apparent at the earliest, precontact occlusion conditions, implying that the ability to anticipate future events based on advance information is crucial to high-level performance. Haskins (1965) originally introduced this paradigm as a method of training perceptual skill, whereas subsequent researchers have used this approach to examine skill-based differences in sports such as tennis (Jones & Miles, 1978), badminton (Abernethy & Russell, 1987), soccer (Williams & Burwitz, 1993), and field hockey (Salmela & Fiorito, 1979). A more detailed review of this literature is available elsewhere (see Starkes et al, 2001;.…”

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