Basketball Players' Advantages of Visual Search and the Characteristics of Eye Movements in Different Visual Field
Fu Qua · 2014
In order to examine the differences between basketball players and novice in visual search and eye movements,four sorts of search tasks were designed and the subjects were asked to perform the search tasks of targets,which appeared at central visual field or peripheral visual field with or without cues.The results showed that basketball players were faster than the novices' in the search task only with cues.The peripheral visual field was influenced significantly by cues and the participants performed fast in task with cues.In the task with cues,the basketball players' numbers of fixation were significantly less than the novices',while the average fixation duration were longer than the novices'.The average saccades size of basketball players were significantly longer than the novices' and the average saccades velocity were faster than the novices' in peripheral visual field.The results indicated that basketball players' abilities of using advanced visual cues and eye movements were superior to the novices'.