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Waltraud Stadler1, Veit S Kraft1, Roee Be'er1
1Chair of Human Movement Science, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Frontiers in Psychology
|December 9, 2021
Summary
Expert athletes in sports like Taekwondo segment actions into larger units, showing greater agreement on action boundaries due to shared knowledge and sensorimotor skills. This reveals insights into expert action representations.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Sports Science
- Motor Control
Background:
- Understanding how athletes mentally represent and structure actions is key to expertise.
- Previous research suggests sensorimotor knowledge influences action representation and segmentation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how Taekwondo experts and novices segment action sequences.
- To explore the structure of internal action representations and shared knowledge in sports expertise.
Main Methods:
- The event segmentation task was employed, where participants identified meaningful units within Taekwondo form sequences.
- Experts and novices segmented videos, and their boundary placements were analyzed for agreement and grain size.
Main Results:
- Taekwondo experts segmented sequences into fewer, larger units compared to novices.
- Significantly higher agreement on segmentation boundaries was observed among experts than novices.
- Shared knowledge and sensorimotor simulation likely contribute to expert consensus, even in unfamiliar forms.
Conclusions:
- Action segmentation reveals expert-specific structures and shared knowledge in sports.
- Sensorimotor skills and shared mental models enhance consensus in expert action representation.
- The findings offer insights into the cognitive mechanisms underlying sports expertise.
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