The limits of action control for deceptive actions in sports: Response inhibition for the basketball pump fake.

ABSTRACT: Even NBA players fall for pump fakes in approximately 73% of the time and initiate erroneous blocking movements. To investigate the spatio-temporal and dynamic constraints of inhibition performance in basketball, the basketball-specific anticipation-response inhibition (ARI) task was applied in a quasi-realistic scenario. To this end, a video of a basketball jump shot was presented and participants were instructed to jump up and press a buzzer at the ceiling to "block" the shot (go-trials). In 25% of all trials, a simulation of a pump fake was presented, and participants should withhold their response (stop-trials). To measure response inhibition ability, the point of no return (PNR, signifying a response-inhibition rate of 50%) was calculated. The PNR was located 462 ms before the point o

SUBMITTER: Wickemeyer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12614604 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature