Differences in Decision-Making Behavior Between Elite and Amateur Team-Handball Players in a Near-Game Test Situation.

ABSTRACT: Athletic features distinguishing experts from non-experts in team sports are relevant for performance analyses, talent identification and successful training. In this respect, perceptual-cognitive factors like decision making have been proposed to be important predictor of talent but, however, assessing decision making in team sports remains a challenging endeavor. In particular, it is now known that decisions expressed by verbal reports or micro-movements in the laboratory differ from those actually made in on-field situations in play. To address this point, our study compared elite and amateur players' decision-making behavior in a near-game test environment including sport-specific sensorimotor responses. Team-handball players (N = 44) were asked to respond as quickly as possible

SUBMITTER: Hinz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038659 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature