Gaze and Visual Perception in Sport

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

Gaze and Visual Perception in Sport is the first book that explores various aspects of gaze and visual perception in sport.

Résumé
Gaze and Visual Perception in Sport is the first book that explores various aspects of gaze and visual perception in sport.

Contenu

'1. Introduction. Part 1. Theoretical Perspectives. 2. Visual Search Theories and their Relevance to Sport Performance. 3. Peripheral Vision in Sport. 4. An Embodied Approach to Gaze in Sport. 5. An Ecological Approach to Gaze Behaviour in Sport. 6. Gaze Behavior and Expert Performance in Sport. Part 2. Applied Perspectives. 7. Training Gaze Behavior in Sport. 8. Gaze Behavior in Golf Putting. 9. Gaze Behavior in Baseball Batting. 10. Visual Strategies of the Racing Driver. 11. Gaze strategies in the soccer penalty kicks: What do we really know?. 12. Gaze Behavior in Shooting in Basketball: From Research to Evidence-Based Quiet-Eye Training. Afterword. Concluding Thoughts.