Individual differences in performance and learning of visual anticipation in expert field hockey goalkeepers

Morris-Binelli, Khaya; Müller, Sean; Rens, Fleur van; Harbaugh, Allen G.; Rosalie, Simon M.

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101829

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“…This suggests that international tennis players in this study were more successful in using information from the movement of a server to predict the ball flight characteristics as their national counterparts. Our results add that a larger proportion of visual behavioral traits while observing movements of servers is related to intraindividual differences than to the return performance category, which is also in line with research performed by Morris-Binelli et al ( 2021 ).…”

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“…The duration of focal vision fixation on movements of the tossing hand and the upward movement of the ball also differ significantly between the return performance categories. This suggests that players may interpret this phase of server action differently, which strongly influences the performance of the return, which is in line with the latest research (Morris-Binelli et al, 2021 ). As could be speculated on the above rationales, this phase is highly related to the first movement initiation of the returning player toward the interception point.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…This allows athletes to use different sources of visual information to perceive the movements of the same characteristics of opponents and consequently to vary their visual attention between repetitions and between individuals. This observation has been recently confirmed in field hockey goalkeepers, where different sources of visual information have been used by different goalkeepers all enabling successful saves, even after performing the same visual attention training intervention (Morris-Binelli et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Several factors have been proposed to contribute to the characteristics of visual search patterns and their variability, such as temporal and spatial demands of the task, amount of information available during the task performed, and knowledge about visual properties and regularities of the environment (Paeye and Madelain, 2014 ; Dicks et al, 2017 ). In interceptive tasks, such as returning tennis serve, saving a penalty kick in soccer, or making a save in field hockey, intercepting a ball is performed under temporal and spatial constraints and requires movement preparation, execution, and adaptation in a time window that can exceed the action of an opponent and the travel time of a ball (Jackson and Mogan, 2007 ; Müller and Abernethy, 2012 ; Morris-Binelli et al, 2021 ). Three main phases during interception tasks have been proposed to contribute significantly to interception performance (Müller and Abernethy, 2012 ; Mecheri et al, 2019 ).…”

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Skill Level in Tennis Serve Return Is Related to Adaptability in Visual Search Behavior

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2021

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Analyzing visual search strategies in tennis is primarily focused on studying relationships between visual behavior and tennis performance. However, diverse movement characteristics among different servers suggest the importance of adjusting the visual search strategies of an individual while playing against different opponents. The aim of this study was to analyze whether visual search strategies can be attributed to the individual server and the returning player during the tennis serve return or return performance. Seventeen tennis players were enrolled in this study (five international players and 12 national players) producing a sample of 1,020 returns measured with mobile eye trackers. The random forest machine learning model was used to analyze the ability to classify the returning player [area under the curve (AUC): 0.953], individual server (AUC: 0.686), and return performance category (AUC: 0.667) based on the location and duration of the focal vision fixation. In international tennis players, the higher predictability of the server was observed as compared with national level players (AUC: 0.901 and 0.834, respectively). More experienced tennis players presented with a higher ability to adjust their visual search strategies to different servers. International players also demonstrated anticipatory visual behavior during the tossing hand movement and superior information pickup during the final phases of the stroke of a server.

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Skill Level in Tennis Serve Return Is Related to Adaptability in Visual Search Behavior

Rosker

2021

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“…Surprisingly however, there is currently little research on arguably the most important action in field hockey (for a study on indoor field hockey see Vinson et al, 2013 ). Only recently some studies have mainly addressed the role of the goalkeeper in defending penalty corners (Morris-Binelli et al, 2020 , 2021 ). Our study addresses this game situation and tries to scrutinize if more (online) adaptation on offense can be considered a promising future development of behavior during penalty corner by questioning (Study 1) and testing (Study 2) expert field hockey players.…”

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Adaptive Gaze Behavior and Decision Making of Penalty Corner Strikers in Field Hockey

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In recent years, studies have increasingly dealt with the interaction of gaze behavior and decision making of team sports athletes. However, there is still a variety of important game situations, for example, in the case of penalty corners in field hockey, in which this interaction has not been investigated in detail yet. Penalty corners present a meaningful goal scoring opportunity by providing a relatively free shot. This paper considers two studies. The first study investigated a possible connection between the gaze behavior and the quality of decisions of experienced field hockey players and evaluated the level of success of different gaze strategies. A preliminary study (Study 1) was designed as a survey questionnaire with the aim of preparing for the main study by obtaining subjective assessments of the individual gaze behavior and decision making of professional athletes. In the second and the main study (Study 2), the gaze behavior of experienced field hockey players was recorded using mobile eye-tracking systems to analyze different strategical approaches in associated gaze behavior and decision making. Study 1 showed that players consider reacting to the defenders' behavior during a penalty corner a promising avenue for improving success at penalty corner attempts. It also indicated that such defense-dependent strategies are currently only rarely employed. Study 2 demonstrated how gaze behavior differs between different strategical approaches of the offense. It was shown that the gaze direction on the ball, the stopper, and the goal area is important to allow for a more optimal adaptation to the tactical behavior of defense. It can be concluded that adaptive decision making (i.e., choosing which variation will be carried out just after the “injection” of the ball) seems promising but requires further training to improve the success rate of penalty corner.

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Attributes of Expert Anticipation Should Inform the Design of Virtual Reality Simulators to Accelerate Learning and Transfer of Skill

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Expert sport performers cope with a multitude of visual information to achieve precise skill goals under time stress and pressure. For example, a major league baseball or cricket batter must read opponent variations in actions and ball flight paths to strike the ball in less than a second. Crowded playing schedules and training load restrictions to minimise injury have limited opportunity for field-based practice in sports. As a result, many sports organisations are exploring the use of virtual reality (VR) simulators. Whilst VR synthetic experiences can allow greater control of visual stimuli, immersion to create presence in an environment, and interaction with stimuli, compared to traditional video simulation, the underpinning mechanisms of how experts use visual information for anticipation have not been properly incorporated into its content design. In themes, this opinion article briefly explains the mechanisms underpinning expert visual anticipation, as well as its learning and transfer, with a view that this knowledge can better inform VR simulator content design. In each theme, examples are discussed for improved content design of VR simulators taking into consideration its advantages and limitations relative to video simulation techniques. Whilst sport is used as the exemplar, the points discussed have implications for skill learning in other domains, such as military and law enforcement. It is hoped that our paper will stimulate improved content design of VR simulators for future research and skill enhancement across several domains.

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Individual differences in performance and learning of visual anticipation in expert field hockey goalkeepers

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Skill Level in Tennis Serve Return Is Related to Adaptability in Visual Search Behavior

Skill Level in Tennis Serve Return Is Related to Adaptability in Visual Search Behavior

Adaptive Gaze Behavior and Decision Making of Penalty Corner Strikers in Field Hockey

Attributes of Expert Anticipation Should Inform the Design of Virtual Reality Simulators to Accelerate Learning and Transfer of Skill

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