Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare prosaccadic and antisaccadic eye movements of experts in ball sports and controls. In the prosaccadic and antisaccadic task, subjects made saccades respectively towards and away from a suddenly appearing stimulus. By means of infrared-oculography, we compared horizontal eye movements of experts (n=18) and controls (n=20). Experts had shorter overall saccadic latencies, but significantly shorter latencies occurred only on the antisaccade task, not on the prosaccade task. Our findings seem to support the concept that prosaccades and antisaccades have different underlying mechanisms and that expertise in ball games mainly improves antisaccadic performance in terms of latency and variability.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 546-52 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Perceptual and Motor Skills |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Adult
- Attention
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Psychomotor Performance
- Reaction Time
- Saccades
- Sports/psychology
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