Abstract
The present study assessed the relative importance of attributes determined largely by the efficiency of the central nervous system versus cognitive attributes in the determination of expertise in field hockey. Three groups were assessed on a battery of field hockey related perceptual and cognitive tasks: the Canadian Women's Field Hockey team, a university team, and a novice group. The attributes assessed were simple reaction time, dynamic visual acuity, coincident anticipation, ball detection speed and accuracy, complex decision speed and accuracy, shot prediction accuracy both when ball impact was viewed and when it was occluded, and recall accuracy of game-structured and nonstructured information. The multitask approach revealed the importance of cognitive abilities in the determination of skill in field hockey.
Keywords
Field hockeyCognitionPsychologyRecallCognitive psychologyPerceptionAnticipation (artificial intelligence)Computer scienceApplied psychologyArtificial intelligenceFootball
Affiliated Institutions
Related Publications
Biased evaluation and persistence in gambling.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of gambling behavior is that people continue to gamble despite persistent failure. One reason for this persistence may be that gamblers evaluate...
Handbook of Sport Psychology
Partial table of contents: SKILL ACQUISITION.Levels of Performance Skill: From Beginners to Experts (C. Wrisberg).Skill Acquisition During Childhood and Adolescence (K. Thomas, ...
Training Self-checking Routines for Estimating Test Readiness: Generalization from List Learning to Prose Recall
Brown and Barclay (Child Development, 1976, 47, 71-80) trained educable retarded children to use either of two memory strategies, Anticipation or Rehearsal, involving a self-che...
Comprehension and recall of sentences.
Preliminary experiments showed that 5s better recall a noun pair if they generate their own linking sentence for the pair than if they merely read an equivalent linking sentence...
Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies.
The tendency to in reflected (BIRG) by publicly announcing one's associations with successful others was investigated in three field experiments. All three studies showed this...
Publication Info
- Year
- 1987
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 146-160
- Citations
- 231
- Access
- Closed
External Links
Social Impact
Altmetric
PlumX Metrics
Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions
Citation Metrics
231
OpenAlex
Cite This
Janet L. Starkes
(1987).
Skill in Field Hockey: The Nature of the Cognitive Advantage.
Journal of Sport Psychology
, 9
(2)
, 146-160.
https://doi.org/10.1123/jsp.9.2.146
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1123/jsp.9.2.146