1st Edition
Visual Perception and Action in Sport
460 Pages
by
Taylor & Francis
464 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the past few decades there has been increasing recognition of the role of perception in successful sport performance. Athletes are dependent upon a constant supply of accurate and reliable information from the environment whilst performing complex movements.
Visual Perception and Action in Sport examines the information which is perceived by the human visual system and the way it is... Read more
Part 1. Cognition in Action: Indirect theories of perception and action - An overview 1. Attention in Sport 2. The Visual System Hardware: Sport functional properties 3. Anticipation and Decision Making in Sport 4. Visual Search Strategy and Sports Performance Part 2. Perception and Action: Direct theories of perception and action 5. Information and Dynamics: The dynamical systems approach Part 3. Skill Acquisition in Sport: Cognitive and dynamical systems perspectives - The acquisition of movement co-ordination 6. Observational Learning in Sport
Biography
Keith Davids, A Mark Williams, John G. Williams
