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Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation

Athletic features distinguishing experts from non-experts in team sports are relevant for performance analyses, talent identification and successful training. In this respect, perceptual-cognitive factors like decision making have been proposed to be important predictor of talent but, however, asses...

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Autores principales: Hinz, Matthias, Lehmann, Nico, Aye, Norman, Melcher, Kevin, Tolentino-Castro, J. Walter, Wagner, Herbert, Taubert, Marco
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35496175
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.854208
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author Hinz, Matthias
Lehmann, Nico
Aye, Norman
Melcher, Kevin
Tolentino-Castro, J. Walter
Wagner, Herbert
Taubert, Marco
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Lehmann, Nico
Aye, Norman
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Tolentino-Castro, J. Walter
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description Athletic features distinguishing experts from non-experts in team sports are relevant for performance analyses, talent identification and successful training. In this respect, perceptual-cognitive factors like decision making have been proposed to be important predictor of talent but, however, assessing decision making in team sports remains a challenging endeavor. In particular, it is now known that decisions expressed by verbal reports or micro-movements in the laboratory differ from those actually made in on-field situations in play. To address this point, our study compared elite and amateur players’ decision-making behavior in a near-game test environment including sport-specific sensorimotor responses. Team-handball players (N = 44) were asked to respond as quickly as possible to representative, temporally occluded attack sequences in a team-handball specific defense environment on a contact plate system. Specifically, participants had to choose and perform the most appropriate out of four prespecified, defense response actions. The frequency of responses and decision time were used as dependent variables representing decision-making behavior. We found that elite players responded significantly more often with offensive responses (p < 0.05, odds ratios: 2.76–3.00) in left-handed attack sequences. Decision time decreased with increasing visual information, but no expertise effect was found. We suppose that expertise-related knowledge and processing of kinematic information led to distinct decision-making behavior between elite and amateur players, evoked in a domain-specific and near-game test setting. Results also indicate that the quality of a decision might be of higher relevance than the required time to decide. Findings illustrate application opportunities in the context of performance analyses and talent identification processes.
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spelling pubmed-90386592022-04-27 Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation Hinz, Matthias Lehmann, Nico Aye, Norman Melcher, Kevin Tolentino-Castro, J. Walter Wagner, Herbert Taubert, Marco Front Psychol Psychology Athletic features distinguishing experts from non-experts in team sports are relevant for performance analyses, talent identification and successful training. In this respect, perceptual-cognitive factors like decision making have been proposed to be important predictor of talent but, however, assessing decision making in team sports remains a challenging endeavor. In particular, it is now known that decisions expressed by verbal reports or micro-movements in the laboratory differ from those actually made in on-field situations in play. To address this point, our study compared elite and amateur players’ decision-making behavior in a near-game test environment including sport-specific sensorimotor responses. Team-handball players (N = 44) were asked to respond as quickly as possible to representative, temporally occluded attack sequences in a team-handball specific defense environment on a contact plate system. Specifically, participants had to choose and perform the most appropriate out of four prespecified, defense response actions. The frequency of responses and decision time were used as dependent variables representing decision-making behavior. We found that elite players responded significantly more often with offensive responses (p < 0.05, odds ratios: 2.76–3.00) in left-handed attack sequences. Decision time decreased with increasing visual information, but no expertise effect was found. We suppose that expertise-related knowledge and processing of kinematic information led to distinct decision-making behavior between elite and amateur players, evoked in a domain-specific and near-game test setting. Results also indicate that the quality of a decision might be of higher relevance than the required time to decide. Findings illustrate application opportunities in the context of performance analyses and talent identification processes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9038659/ /pubmed/35496175 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.854208 Text en Copyright © 2022 Hinz, Lehmann, Aye, Melcher, Tolentino-Castro, Wagner and Taubert. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Hinz, Matthias
Lehmann, Nico
Aye, Norman
Melcher, Kevin
Tolentino-Castro, J. Walter
Wagner, Herbert
Taubert, Marco
Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation
title Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation
title_full Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation
title_fullStr Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation
title_full_unstemmed Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation
title_short Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation
title_sort differences in decision-making behavior between elite and amateur team-handball players in a near-game test situation
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35496175
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.854208
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