Title:

Action anticipation in sports: A particular case of expert decision-making

Creator:

Abreu, Ana Maria

Abstract:

A soccer player asks his girlfriend to marry him. To celebrate, they buy a red car. That day, during practice, the soccer player shoots to score a goal, unprecedentedly using his left foot, anticipating the goalkeeper’s next move. All of these actions result from social, consumer, and perceptual-motor decision-making (DM) processes. Although the soccer player might not be an expert decision maker in relationships or car deals, he is surely an expert when it comes to deciding how to score a goal. Not all decisions involve the same cognitive processes or neural underpinnings. Thus, when considering expert DM, it is crucial to clarify both the expertise domain and the decisional processes involved. Here, in this opinion mini-review, I present a brief overview of action anticipation (AA) in sports as a particular case of expert DM, making use of theories from economics to mathematical and clinical fields. Additionally, I discuss the cognitive and neural mechanisms subtending AA and show how certainty and saliency influence AA just like in other DM situations. Finally, I discuss how expert DM in the form of AA in sports can amount to a gut feeling, just like the gut feeling the soccer player needed to propose or buy a red car, instead of blue

Subject and Keywords:

expert decision-making ; action anticipation ; level of certainty ; familiarity

Place of publication:

Poznań

Publisher:

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Poznaniu

Object type:

artykuły

Language:

eng

Publication date:

2014

ISBN/ISSN:

2299-9590

Previous title:

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Is part of:

Trends in Sport Sciences 2014 Vol.21 No.1

Rights Management:

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Poznaniu ; Biblioteka Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego w Poznaniu

Format:

pp.5-11; 30 cm

Rights:

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Access rights:

dla wszystkich w zakresie dozwolonego użytku

License:

udostępnianie na podstawie umowy z właścicielem majątkowych praw autorskich

Rights holder:

Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Poznaniu

Digitisation:

Biblioteka Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego w Poznaniu

Location of original object:

Biblioteka Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego w Poznaniu

Digital object format:

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