Differences in Visuospatial Expertise between Skeet Shooting Athletes and Non-Athletes.

ABSTRACT: Sports vision is a specialisation of optometry whose objective is to improve and preserve visual function to increase sports performance. The main objective of the present study was to compare the visual expertise of non-athletes to skeet shooting athletes. Participants underwent an optometric assessment in which all those with severe deviations from normal vision, after compensating for visual abnormalities, were eliminated. After that, the following six visuospatial components were measured: hand-eye coordination, peripheral awareness, fixation disparity, saccadic eye movements, speed of recognition and visual memory. To measure the aforementioned components, the following tests were used: directional arrows, similar and different characters, the dichromatic disparity test, character mar

SUBMITTER: Nascimento H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8346005 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature