Skill-related differences between athletes and nonathletes in speed discrimination.
Percept Mot Skills
; 107(3): 893-900, 2008 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-19235418
ABSTRACT
This study examined differences in decision-making time and accurscy as attributes of speed discrimination between participants skilled and less skilled in ball games. A total of 130 men, ages 18 to 28 years (M=21.2, SD=2.6), participated. The athlete sample (skilled group) comprised Estonian National League volleyball (n=26) and basketball players (n=27). The nonathlete sample (less skilled group) included 77 soldiers of the Estonian Defence Force with no reported top level experience in ball games. Speed-discrimination stimuli were images of red square shapes presented moving along the sagittal axis at four different virtual velocities on a computer (PC) screen which represented the frontal plane. Analysis indicated that only decision-making time was significantly different between the elite athlete and nonathlete groups. This finding suggests a possible effect of ball-game skills for decision-making time in speed discrimination.
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Assunto principal:
Tempo de Reação
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Esportes
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Discriminação Psicológica
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Percept Mot Skills
Ano de publicação:
2008
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Finlândia