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| Research article summary (published 30 May 2002): |
Visual orienting in college athletes: explorations of athlete type and gender.
Full Abstract
Covert orienting was measured in 50 college athletes and 51 nonathletes of both genders. Visual environments of the sports were both static (swimming, track) and dynamic (soccer, volleyball). Participants made speeded responses in a task measuring vigilance, alerting, automatic orienting, voluntary orienting, modulation of automatic orienting, and modulation of inhibition of return. Gender differences werefound in the overall response times of nonathletes and in the alerting measures for all participants. However, all participants were similar in their automatic orienting. Sport-specific effects were seen in voluntary orienting and in the modulation of automatic orienting. These gender and sports-related findings are interpreted in light of the experience athletes have in the dynamic control of spatial attention.
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Author information
Author/s: Lum, Jeanette (J); Enns, James T (JT); Pratt, Jay (J);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Research quarterly for exercise and sport (Res Q Exerc Sport), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 73 (issue 2) : pp 156-67
Dates: Created 2002/07/02; Completed 2003/02/24; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12092890, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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