16:30 - 18:00
Mon-A6-Talk III-
Mon-Talk III-
Room: A6
Chair/s:
Iris Güldenpenning
In different kind of sports, highly time-restricted situations require athletes to early anticipate actions of team members and opponents. Skilled athletes use different sensory modalities to predict upcoming situations. The first talk focuses on multisensory integration in anticipation. For the anticipation of sporting actions, not only sensory perceptions play a role, but also information about the context (e.g. the score, the position of a player on the field, preferences of an opponent). The second talk deals with the question of how different frequencies of head fakes performed by different basketball players affect the individual effectiveness of the head fake. The ability to inhibit an already planned action also plays an important role in sport, for example in order to avoid an injury or because an opponent has provoked an incorrect action through deception. In the third talk, a paradigmatic approach is reported to investigate response inhibition for the basketball jump shot. The fourth talk focuses on the relationship
between response inhibition and expertise. The fifth talk explores the question of how prior mental training in the learning process of a complex action affects gaze behavior and motor performance.
Audio-Visual Integration in Anticipation: The Role of Context Information and Task Requirements
Mon-A6-Talk III-01
Presented by: Florian Müller
Florian Müller, Rouwen Cañal-Bruland
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
In general, research on anticipation in sports (see Cañal-Bruland & Mann, 2015; Loffing & Cañal-Bruland, 2017) has targeted the role of visual information processing in anticipating others' actions. In contrast, the role of auditory information and its multisensory integration with additional sensory modalities has only recently received attention. In this talk we will first review work on the role of auditory information in anticipating ball trajectories and speed judgments in tennis, covering both the effects of racket ball contact sounds (Cañal-Bruland et al., 2018) and of grunting accompanying players' strokes (Müller et al., 2019). We then turn to highlight recent work testing whether such multisensory integration effects on anticipation are dependent on the specific context (e.g., tennis rallies) or are driven by universal principles of perceptual processing (Cañal-Bruland et al., 2022). Finally, we will present studies using continuous behavioral measures (i.e., finger tracking) in multisensory anticipation paradigms and discuss their use in charting the time sensitivity of multisensory integration.
Keywords: context, auditory perception, multisensory integration, anticipation, sport, tennis