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Jessica K Witt1, Sally A Linkenauger, Jonathan Z Bakdash
1Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. jkwitt@purdue.edu
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|June 24, 2008
Summary
Golfers who performed better perceived the golf hole as larger. This suggests that current performance ability influences visual perception, impacting how we see our environment.
Area of Science:
- * Cognitive Psychology
- * Sports Science
- * Perception Research
Background:
- * Skilled behaviors, like sports, involve integrating optical information with performance.
- * The relationship between an individual's performance and their perception is not fully understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- * To investigate the influence of performance on size perception in golfers.
- * To determine if successful performance leads to altered judgments of environmental features.
Main Methods:
- * Field study: Compared size judgments of golf holes by golfers of differing performance levels.
- * Laboratory experiments: Participants putt from near and far locations and then judged hole size.
Main Results:
- * Better-performing golfers judged the hole size as larger compared to lower-performing golfers.
- * Participants who putted from a near location perceived the hole as larger than those from a far location.
Conclusions:
- * Perception is dynamically influenced by an individual's current ability to perform actions effectively.
- * Performance success can alter the subjective perception of environmental object sizes.
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