KINE 3020 Study Guide - Motor Skill, Visual Search, Action Selection

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In most performance situations, our intentions and goals as well as certain characteristics in the environment influence visual attention. Although we may actively seek environmental cues based on our action intentions and goals, we may also attend to certain cues because of their distinct characteristics. Visual search for regulatory characteristics of stationary objects is critical for successful prehension actions. Because the target will pop out as a result of this search process, because the feature is distinct among the groupings of the features. As a person becomes more skillful, his or her visual attention becomes increasingly more attuned to detecting the important kinematic features: someone walks in late to class; everyone turns their head to the person. Unexpected features attracting our attention: true/false: professional basketball players tend to allocate attention to meaningless features when shooting free throws. Experts use the 83 msecond period prior ot racquet-shuttle contact more effectively than novices.

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