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Expertise and attunement to kinematic constraints

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posted on 2016-07-19, 14:17 authored by Bruce Abernethy, Khairi Zawi, Robin JacksonRobin Jackson
Three experiments were undertaken to ascertain the extent to which expertise in natu- ral anticipatory tasks is characterised by superior attunement to the biomechanical (kinematic) constraints of the movement pattern being observed. Twelve world-class and twelve non-expert badminton players were required to predict the depth of an opponent's stroke from either video displays or point-light displays of the opposing player's hitting action. The information available within the displays was manipulated through temporal and/or spatial occlusion. Consistent with predictions that can be derived from the constraint-attunement hypothesis (Vicente and Wang, 1998 Psychological Review 105 33 ^ 57), experts showed: (i) an unchanged pattern of information pick-up when the display was reduced from video to point-light and only kinematic informa- tion was available; (ii) superior information pick-up from kinematic features that non-experts could use; and (iii) attunement to early kinematic information from the lower body to which non-experts were not sensitive. Consistent with predictions that can be derived from a common-coding per- spective (Prinz, 1997 European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 9 129 ^ 154), the anticipation of stroke depth was facilitated more for experts than non-experts when the perceptual display provided linked segment information reminiscent of the cross-segmental torque transfers that occur during expert movement production.

Funding

This work was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. HKU7400/05H).

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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Perception

Volume

37

Pages

931 - 948

Citation

ABERNETHY, B., ZAWI, K. and JACKSON, R., 2008. Expertise and attunement to kinematic constraints. Perception, 37 (6), pp.931-948.

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SAGE (© the authors)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2008

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Closed access.

ISSN

0301-0066

eISSN

1468-4233

Language

  • en

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