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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Sports Science
  • Motor Skill Acquisition

Background:

  • Skilled behaviors, like sports performance and face recognition, are often automatic.
  • Prior activities can influence subsequent skilled task performance.
  • Previous research indicates detrimental effects of certain pre-task activities in sports and face recognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how pre-task activities affect golf putting performance in experienced and novice golfers.
  • To compare the impact of specific detrimental tasks (describing action, face, local Navon) versus control tasks (reading, global Navon) on golf putting.
  • To explore the underlying cognitive mechanisms shifting automatic to analytic processing in skilled performance.

Main Methods:

  • Two golf-putting experiments were conducted with experienced and novice golfers.
  • Participants performed putting tasks after engaging in pre-task activities: describing the action, describing a face, reading local Navon letters, reading global Navon letters, or reading text.
  • Performance metrics likely included accuracy and consistency of putts.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1: A Navon effect was observed in experienced players, indicating task-specific cognitive influences.
  • Experiment 2: Experienced golfers' putting performance was significantly impaired after tasks involving describing the action, a face, or local Navon letters, compared to reading or global Navon tasks.
  • Novice golfers' performance was not significantly affected by these pre-task activities.

Conclusions:

  • The detrimental effects observed in experienced golfers suggest a shift from automatic to a more analytic processing style.
  • These findings highlight parallels between cognitive processes in face recognition and sports performance.
  • Understanding these shifts can enhance interventions for skilled performance optimization and skill acquisition.