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Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players
Exploration of eye-movement behaviors of humans can provide insight into the processes used to inform and make decisions, with a large body of research revealing general trends, especially in the sporting context. Despite this some questions remain within the sport context particularly for elite gro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9311377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35899141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.899217 |
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author | Kassem, Lael MacMahon, Clare Quinn, John Dogramaci, Sera Pang, Bonnie Steel, Kylie A. |
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description | Exploration of eye-movement behaviors of humans can provide insight into the processes used to inform and make decisions, with a large body of research revealing general trends, especially in the sporting context. Despite this some questions remain within the sport context particularly for elite groups engaged in diverse sports, and the potential for this information to provide for training, development, and performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the critical fixation points and durations associated with superior decision-making within an elite group of Australian Rules football players. To achieve this eye-movement behavior (fixations) and associated decision-making skills of (N = 27; Mage = 25.0 ± 3.7 yrs) elite Australian Rules (AR) football players were measured while they watched game-based video clips. The most skilled players made significantly faster decisions compared to less skilled players (p < 0.001), who also had significantly shorter total fixation duration (p < 0.0001). Further, analysis showed that the most skilled players spent more time fixating on potential options within an area of interest (p = 0.003). Thus, within a group of highly skilled group of athletes, distinctions can be made on perceptual-cognitive skills, for outcome decisions and decision processes. That is, skilled decision-makers appear to have more efficient visual search strategies, which may help them process visual information more effectively. Further, examination of these behaviors may aid sport science and coaching staff identify the process that can be refined to increase player ability between and within various teams. |
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spelling | pubmed-93113772022-07-26 Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players Kassem, Lael MacMahon, Clare Quinn, John Dogramaci, Sera Pang, Bonnie Steel, Kylie A. Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living Exploration of eye-movement behaviors of humans can provide insight into the processes used to inform and make decisions, with a large body of research revealing general trends, especially in the sporting context. Despite this some questions remain within the sport context particularly for elite groups engaged in diverse sports, and the potential for this information to provide for training, development, and performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the critical fixation points and durations associated with superior decision-making within an elite group of Australian Rules football players. To achieve this eye-movement behavior (fixations) and associated decision-making skills of (N = 27; Mage = 25.0 ± 3.7 yrs) elite Australian Rules (AR) football players were measured while they watched game-based video clips. The most skilled players made significantly faster decisions compared to less skilled players (p < 0.001), who also had significantly shorter total fixation duration (p < 0.0001). Further, analysis showed that the most skilled players spent more time fixating on potential options within an area of interest (p = 0.003). Thus, within a group of highly skilled group of athletes, distinctions can be made on perceptual-cognitive skills, for outcome decisions and decision processes. That is, skilled decision-makers appear to have more efficient visual search strategies, which may help them process visual information more effectively. Further, examination of these behaviors may aid sport science and coaching staff identify the process that can be refined to increase player ability between and within various teams. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9311377/ /pubmed/35899141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.899217 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kassem, MacMahon, Quinn, Dogramaci, Pang and Steel. 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. |
spellingShingle | Sports and Active Living Kassem, Lael MacMahon, Clare Quinn, John Dogramaci, Sera Pang, Bonnie Steel, Kylie A. Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players |
title | Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players |
title_full | Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players |
title_fullStr | Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players |
title_full_unstemmed | Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players |
title_short | Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players |
title_sort | examining the eye movement behaviors associated with skilled decision-making by elite australian rules football players |
topic | Sports and Active Living |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9311377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35899141 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.899217 |
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