The Perceptual Cognitive Skills And Their Interaction As A...

Sports offer a relatively exclusive environment where athletic abilities and achievements are continuously challenged. There are essential skills and attributes necessary for the best athletic performance. Athletes are required to process information in a time-constrained intense atmosphere. Along with that sports require one to adapt and gain new knowledge and exceptional cognitive processes that allow athletes to compete at their highest ability. Throughout this paper I will be discussing two different research articles. The first article I have chosen is titled Perceptual-Cognitive Skills and Their Interaction as a Function of Task Constraints in Soccer. The second article I will be reviewing is titled, The Perceptual Cognitive†¦show more content†¦A panel of qualified soccer coaches independently examined and selected a total of 20 video action stimuli to be presented to the soccer participants. Research predicted that the data suggests that skilled players can anticipat e their opponent’s intentions earlier and more accurately than their lesser-skilled counterparts (Ford, McRobert, Roca, Williams, 2013). However, for less skilled participants, researchers expected no significant differences in the search rate and gaze strategy employed across task conditions due to their lack of domain and task-specific knowledge compared with their more skilled counterparts (Ford, McRobert, Roca, Williams, 2013). It was also hypothesized that during the far task condition, in which the ball was far away from the participant, skilled players would employ more fixations of shorter duration to more informative areas in the scene; for example the 11 vs. 11 situations. While for the near task, where the ball was close to the participant, skilled participants were expected to have fewer fixations of longer duration, predominantly to the player in possession of the ball (Roca et al., 2011; Williams et al., 1994). Evidence shows that skilled players were better at anticipating because they made more effective use of meaningful postural cue information. A cue is something that can help an individual with memory recall. It can be said that the skilled soccer player had better free recall or cued recall