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Visual Attentional Orienting in Developing Hockey Players

Enns1, Richards

  • 1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|February 1, 1997
PubMed
Summary

High-skill hockey players demonstrate superior visual attention, showing faster responses and better adaptation to changing cues. This highlights the link between athletic skill and key visual processing abilities.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Sports science
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Visual attention is crucial for sports performance.
  • Understanding how athletic training impacts visual attention is important.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate covert visual orienting in hockey players of different ages and skill levels.
  • To compare hockey players with non-athlete college students.

Main Methods:

  • Measured covert visual orienting using information and stimulus cues.
  • Tested participants at two ages (12 and 15 years) and two skill levels (low and high).
  • Included college students with no hockey training.

Main Results:

  • High-skill 15-year-old hockey players exhibited the fastest overall responses and least variability with cue-target intervals.

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  • High-skill players showed generally smaller orienting effects with information cues compared to low-skill players.
  • High-skill players demonstrated greater changes in response time functions with stimulus cues over cue-target intervals.

    • Conclusions:

    • Hockey skill is associated with enhanced sustained alertness.
    • Efficient voluntary orienting and processing of abrupt stimulus events are linked to hockey expertise.
    • These findings suggest a strong connection between hockey proficiency and specific visual attention mechanisms.