1st Edition

Gaze and Visual Perception in Sport

Edited By Gal Ziv, Ronnie Lidor Copyright 2025
166 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Gaze and Visual Perception in Sport is the first book that explores various aspects of gaze and visual perception in sport. The way athletes control their gaze and their ability to extract relevant information from the environment is important for their ability to perform sport-related motor tasks. Whether it is closed, self-paced targeting tasks such as the basketball free-throw shot, or a... Read more

1. Introduction

Gal Ziv and Ronnie Lidor

 

Part 1. Theoretical Perspectives

 

2. Visual Search Theories and their Relevance to Sport Performance 

Gal Ziv

 

3. Peripheral Vision in Sport

Christian Vater, Božo Vukojević and A. Mark Williams

 

4. An Embodied Approach to Gaze in Sport

Markus Raab and Florian Loffing

 

5. An Ecological Approach to Gaze Behaviour in Sport

Matt Miller-Dicks, Keith Davids and Duarte Araújo

 

6. Gaze Behavior and Expert Performance in Sport 

A. Mark Williams, Brady DeCouto, Israel Teoldo and Christian Vater

 

Part 2. Applied Perspectives

 

7. Training Gaze Behavior in Sport

Lee Moore, David Broadbent and Christian Vater

 

8. Gaze Behavior in Golf Putting

Gal Ziv

 

9. Gaze Behavior in Baseball Batting

Rob Gray and Nick Fogt

 

10. Visual Strategies of the Racing Driver 

Otto Lappi and Gal Ziv

 

11. Gaze Strategies in the Soccer Penalty Kicks: What Do We Really Know? 

Artem V. Belopolsky, Ran Zheng and John van der Kamp

 

12. Gaze Behavior in Shooting in Basketball: From Research to Evidence-Based Quiet-Eye Training

Ronnie Lidor

 

Afterword. Concluding Thoughts

Ronnie Lidor and Gal Ziv

Biography

Gal Ziv, PhD, is the Head of the Motor Behavior Laboratory at The Levinsky-Wingate Academic College, Israel, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania. He conducts research on perceptual-cognitive skills and expert performance and learning.

Ronnie Lidor is a Professor of Motor Behavior and is the Director of the Levinsky-Wingate Academic College, Israel. His main areas of research are cognitive/learning strategies, talent detection and early development in sport, and sport for development.