Vision is the process of seeing and perceiving the surrounding environment by using information contained in light. Appropriate visual information is imperative for almost every sporting task to ensure that athletes are able to monitor the actions of others, while also perceiving their position in relation to targets, such as balls, nets, and walls, and the … Continue reading Vision in Sports
Category: Perception In Sport
Verbal Protocols
A verbal protocol or verbal report is a cognitive task analysis (CTA) technique designed to elicit a verbalizable report of an individual’s thinking during task performance. Verbal protocols are typically elicited by trained researchers as a means to access information heeded (attended) during task performance; this is usually for the purpose of understanding the mental … Continue reading Verbal Protocols
Transcranial Magnetic Simulation
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive method of activating regions of the brain by small electric currents generated by a magnetic pulse. Over the last 25 years, TMS has become an integral technique for studying brain function in humans in both healthy and diseased states and is a valid and reliable technique for investigating… Continue reading Transcranial Magnetic Simulation
Situational Awareness
Expertise in sport, or the growth of specialist athletic knowledge and skills as a result of effortful experience, has attracted considerable attention in recent years from researchers in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and sport psychology (SP). An important impetus for this surge of interest is the fact that the study of athletic expertise can shed… Continue reading Situational Awareness
Sensorimotor Representations
In anatomical terms, sensation and movement are each represented across distributed regions in the human brain. Somatosensory information— that is, information pertaining to sensation of the body—is gathered from the environment and transmitted to the brain via the spinal cord and via the thalamus, from where it is distributed to three regions of the parietal … Continue reading Sensorimotor Representations