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ERIC Number: EJ701867
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar
Pages: 5
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Time Course of Attention and Decision Making during a Volleyball Set
Sibley, Benjamin A.; Etnier, Jennifer L.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, v75 n1 p101-106 Mar 2004
Attention is a term that has been used to describe a broad range of topics in the sport and exercise literature (Nougier, Stein, & Bonnel, 1991). Research focusing on attention has included studies on selectivity, concentration, mental set, visual search, arousal, and information processing (Abernethy, 2001), and a variety of techniques (e.g., occlusion methods, eye-tracking tasks, dual-task paradigms) have been used to examine the attention-related behaviors of participants dining sport task performance. Many studies in sport have used occlusion and eye-tracking techniques to assess the orientation of visual attention during ball-tracking tasks (Land & McLeod, 2000; Ripoll & Fleurance, 1988; Singer et al., 1998; Whiting, 1968, 1970; Whiting, Alderson, & Sanderson, 1973; Whiting & Sharp, 1974). The findings of this research has shown that performers do not need to track the entire ball flight but rather that skilled sport participants track the initial flight of the ball, and then their eyes "shoot ahead" to the final portion of flight.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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