Dynamic visual attention characteristics and their relationship to match performance in skilled basketball players.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dynamic visual attention is important in basketball because it may affect the performance of players and thus the match outcome. The goals of this study were to investigate the difference in dynamic visual attention characteristics between highly skilled basketball players and nonathletic college students and to explore the relationship between visual attention and game-related performance among the basketball players.

Methods

In total, 24 highly skilled basketball players and 24 nonathletic college students participated in a multiple object tracking task. The task was conducted so that either the number of targets that were visually tracked or the speed at which a given number of tracked targets moved was altered to examine the difference in dynamic visual attent

SUBMITTER: Jin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7443082 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature