The Effect of Perceptual Skill Training by Orienting Attention on Anticipation the Direction of Badminton Shot in Athletes with Different Level of Skills

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 shahidbeheshti university

3 Department of Biomedical Science and Neuromotor Sciences DIBINEM, Bologna, Italy

Abstract

Background and purpose: The main component in expert sports performance, particularly racket sports, is an anticipatory skill. The capability to make accurate predictive or anticipatory judgments could be improved through perceptual training. The main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using sound to guide attention on anticipation of the direction of badminton shot in athletes with different skill levels.
Methodology: The present research method was quasi-experimental and in terms of the use of the results is applied research, which participants compare in the pre-test, immediate retention, and delayed retention. 40 novices, 40 semi-experts, and 22 expert players who play in the badminton national league (mean age: 26±2.64, right-handed, normal vision, and hearing) participated in the current study that randomly divided into visual and audio-visual groups. 200 video clips were employed to orient attention toward key stimuli. The visual group just observed video clips and were verbally instructed to which points to look at in which order for orienting attention toward key stimuli. In the audio-visual group, the participant’s eye movements convert to audio online. The pre-test, immediate retention, and delayed retention were taken without guided attention in both groups.
Results: The results showed that badminton novices and semi-experts who trained with audio-visual training significantly improved their gaze behavior pattern and anticipatory skill between pretest, immediate-retention, and delay retention test compared with the visual group. Whereas training had no effect on expert national league players.
Conclusion: It is concluded that using sound to highlight the most informative cues in perceptual training programs is a promising way to improve anticipatory skills. We can introduce multi-sensory training as a novel and efficient method to facilitate the learning of gaze behavior and anticipatory skills to coaches, novice, and semi-expert athletes.

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Journal of Sport Management and Motor Behavior
Volume 20, Issue 39
January 2023
Pages 239-265

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