Peripheral Vision Tests in Sports: Training Effects and Reliability of Peripheral Perception Test

Schumacher, Nils; Schmidt, Mike; Reer, Rüdiger; Braumann, Klaus-Michael

doi:10.3390/ijerph16245001

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“…Peripheral awareness was found to be superior in the present study's Premier League rugby players and is supported by the previous findings of Schumacher et al (2019) (21). However, Abernethy and Wood (2001), and Ryu et al (2013) found no differences in peripheral awareness when comparing expert and novices in racquet sports and soccer players, respectively (9,22).…”

Section: Speed Of Recognition Of Premier League Rugbysupporting

confidence: 89%

Visual Abilities Distinguish Level of Play in Rugby

Millard¹,

Shaw²,

Breukelman³

et al. 2020

Ann Appl Sport Sci

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Background. Novices in sport possesses similar visual skills to that of experts, however there may be major differences in magnitude of performance in these skills, with expert athletes only demonstrating superiority in specific vision skills and not all aspects of vision. Objectives. In this vain, the aim of this study was to discern whether Premier League rugby players has enhanced visio-spatial skills in comparison to First Division rugby players. Methods. Thus, the present study compared the performance of Premier League rugby players (n = 40) and First Division rugby players (n = 40) on six specific components of vision, namely; accommodation facility, saccadic eye movement, speed of recognition, peripheral awareness, visual memory, and hand-eye coordination. Results. Premier League rugby players performed significantly (p = 0.001) better than the First Division rugby players in five of the six tests. but were found to be similar in visual memory performance (p = 0.810). Conclusion. While this study substantiates the proposal that expert athletes, and specifically rugby players, have superior visual expertise to novice athletes, this study also found that this is not the case with all vision skills. The present study's findings suggest that sport-specific vision testing batteries may be required to distinguish high performers from low performers in the same vein as physical tests are utilised in the selection and recruitment of athletes.

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Section: Speed Of Recognition Of Premier League Rugbysupporting

confidence: 89%

Visual Abilities Distinguish Level of Play in Rugby

Millard¹,

Shaw²,

Breukelman³

et al. 2020

Ann Appl Sport Sci

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“…A strong link between participation in fast-paced sports, requiring quick responses, and faster visuomotor processes is well documented [7,8,18]. However, there is less information about how these functions change with age and differ across sport discipline, gender, anthropometric variables, and sports experience (years of practice, training per week).…”

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confidence: 99%

Predicting Visual-Motor Performance in a Reactive Agility Task from Selected Demographic, Training, Anthropometric, and Functional Variables in Adolescents

Popowczak

Domaradzki

Rokita

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Reactive agility (RA) directly refers to athletes’ visuomotor processing of the specific conditions for team sports. The aim of the study was to identify the factors among age, gender, sport discipline, time participation in a sports activity, reaction time, and visual field which could have an impact on visual-motor performance in RA tasks in young, competitive team sports players. The study included boys (n = 149) and girls (n = 157) aged 13–15 participating in basketball, volleyball and handball. Anthropometric measurements were carried out, and the Peripheral Perception (PP) test was used to evaluate the visual-motor performance under laboratory conditions. The Five-Time Shuttle Run to Gates test was used to determine the RA. A multiple regression analysis was performed to identify the relationships between the visual-motor performance in an RA task (dependent variable) and the remaining independent variables (continuous and categorical). The findings of the current study indicate that the main predictive factors of visual-motor performance in RA among young athletes are gender (ß = −0.46, p < 0.000) and age (ß = −0.30, p < 0.000). Moreover, peripheral perception positively affected the achievements in the RA task in boys (ß = −0.25, p = 0.020). The sport discipline does not differentiate the visual-motor performance in RA in team sports players in the puberty period.

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“…Secondary outcomes were FOV, VAL, VAR, and the TD. Detailed description and reliability are given elsewhere (Schumacher et al, 2019).…”

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On-Field Perceptual-Cognitive Training Improves Peripheral Reaction in Soccer: A Controlled Trial

2020

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Abilities such as peripheral reaction are of special importance in soccer. Whether these abilities can be improved by sport-specific on-field interventions remains unclear. The aim of the present controlled trial was to investigate the effect of a soccer-specific perceptual-cognitive on-field training on peripheral reaction of highly talented soccer players aged 12-13 years. N = 38 male elite athletes from young talent centers were allocated to an intervention (n = 19) and a control group (CG) (n = 19). Computer-based peripheral perception tests were conducted before and after intervention. Combining a sport-specific and a juggling task, the intervention was performed once a week (8 weeks, 20 min per week) in addition to team training. The CG exclusively underwent usual team training. Analyses show significant differences between the two groups for peripheral reaction time (PRT), with significant improvements for the intervention group and none for the CG. Furthermore, results indicate that improvements in peripheral reaction might be due to changes in the reaction time of right-footed players. Future studies should be conducted to clarify the effect of sport-specific on-field training approaches on PRT. These analyses should consider the influence of lateralization on effectivity of perceptual-cognitive on-field training approaches.

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Peripheral Vision Tests in Sports: Training Effects and Reliability of Peripheral Perception Test

Cited by 30 publications

References 45 publications

Visual Abilities Distinguish Level of Play in Rugby

Visual Abilities Distinguish Level of Play in Rugby

Predicting Visual-Motor Performance in a Reactive Agility Task from Selected Demographic, Training, Anthropometric, and Functional Variables in Adolescents

On-Field Perceptual-Cognitive Training Improves Peripheral Reaction in Soccer: A Controlled Trial

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