TY - JOUR
T1 - Expert anticipation from deceptive action
AU - Mori, Shuji
AU - Shimada, Takuro
N1 - Funding Information:
The experiments reported in this article were conducted by the second author as part of a master’s thesis submitted to Kyushu University. Some of the data have been previously reported, in a somewhat different form, at the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland, October 2009. The research was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 17530528 and 21330169 to S.M. We thank Denis O’Hora, Takayuki Higuchi, Makiko Sadakata, Minoru Karasawa, and Nobuyuki Hirose for valuable suggestions. We also thank Cathy M. Craig and Simon Grondin for their helpful comments on early versions of this article.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Expertise in sports enhances the ability to anticipate forthcoming events from the observation of a player's actions. In the present study, we investigated whether this ability is applicable to deceptive action. In three experiments, performance at anticipating the direction change of a running opponent was examined with experienced rugby players and novice counterparts. These experiments were conducted with reaction-time and temporal-occlusion tasks, in combination with eye movement recordings and the presentation of filmed actions and their point-light representations. The main finding was that the experienced players were superior to the novices in their anticipation of deceptive actions, although their performance was still impaired by the deception, in comparison with their anticipation of nondeceptive actions. We also found that the experienced players anticipated nondeceptive actions less accurately than the novices, suggesting that the players' expectations of deceptive actions worked negatively on their judgments of nondeceptive actions. The results obtained with the point-light representations closely resembled those obtained with the filmed sequences, indicating that anticipation was based on the kinematics of the running action. These results are discussed in the context of recent developments in research on expertise and deception in sports.
AB - Expertise in sports enhances the ability to anticipate forthcoming events from the observation of a player's actions. In the present study, we investigated whether this ability is applicable to deceptive action. In three experiments, performance at anticipating the direction change of a running opponent was examined with experienced rugby players and novice counterparts. These experiments were conducted with reaction-time and temporal-occlusion tasks, in combination with eye movement recordings and the presentation of filmed actions and their point-light representations. The main finding was that the experienced players were superior to the novices in their anticipation of deceptive actions, although their performance was still impaired by the deception, in comparison with their anticipation of nondeceptive actions. We also found that the experienced players anticipated nondeceptive actions less accurately than the novices, suggesting that the players' expectations of deceptive actions worked negatively on their judgments of nondeceptive actions. The results obtained with the point-light representations closely resembled those obtained with the filmed sequences, indicating that anticipation was based on the kinematics of the running action. These results are discussed in the context of recent developments in research on expertise and deception in sports.
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U2 - 10.3758/s13414-013-0435-z
DO - 10.3758/s13414-013-0435-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 23436250
AN - SCOPUS:84876585167
SN - 1943-3921
VL - 75
SP - 751
EP - 770
JO - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
JF - Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
IS - 4
ER -