Influence of sports expertise level on attention in multiple object tracking.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to investigate whether performance in a multiple object tracking (MOT) task could be improved incrementally with sports expertise, and whether differences between experienced and less experienced athletes, or non-athletes, were modulated by load.

Methods

We asked 22 elite and 20 intermediate basketball players, and 23 non-athletes, to perform an MOT task under three attentional load conditions (two, three, and four targets). Accuracies were analyzed to examine whether different levels of sports expertise influence MOT task performance.

Results

The elite athletes displayed better tracking performance compared with the intermediate or non-athletes when tracking three or four targets. However, no significant difference was found between the in

SUBMITTER: Qiu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6166630 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature