Preservation of visual attention in older expert orienteers at rest and under physical effort
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The visual attention of older expert orienteers and older adults not practicing activities with high attentional and psychomotor demands is investigated. The results have indicated that older expert orienteers have developed attentional skills that outweigh the age-related deficits of visual attentional focusing.
Publication Name: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0895-2779
Year: 2007
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Effects of focus of attention on baseball batting performance in players of differing skill levels
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The effects of focus of attention on the baseball players' batting performance of various skill levels are examined. The results show that the optimal focus of attention for highly skilled batters is one that does not hamper proceduralized knowledge and permits attention to the perceptual effect of the action.
Publication Name: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0895-2779
Year: 2007
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"I spy with my little eye!": Breadth of attention, inattentional blindness, and tactical decision making in team sports
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An experiment that was carried out to find the link between breadth of attention, inattentional blindness, and tactical decision-making in team ball sports is described. It was seen that increase in tactical instructions could lead to a narrower breadth of attention that increased inattentional blindness.
Publication Name: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0895-2779
Year: 2007
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