Anticipation and Decision Making in Sport

Author:   A. Mark Williams ,  Robin Jackson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   398
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   A. Mark Williams ,  Robin Jackson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138504837


ISBN 10:   1138504831
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Part I: Characteristics of expert anticipation in sport 1. Postural cues, biological motion perception, and anticipation in sport 2. Familiarity detection and pattern perception 3. Contextual information and its role in expert anticipation 4. Visual search behaviours in expert perceptual judgments 5. The role of peripheral vision in sports and everyday life 6. Deception in sport 7. Emotion and its impact on perception 8. Neurophysiological studies of action anticipation in sport 9. Motor simulation in action prediction: sport-specific considerations 10. Perception-action for the study of anticipation and decision making Part II: Characteristics of expert decision making in sport 11. Tactical creativity and decision making in sport 12. Heuristics, biases, and decision making 13. High-stakes decision making: anxiety and cognition 14. Decision making in match officials and judges Part III: Training anticipation and decision making in sport 15. Practice and sports activities in the acquisition of anticipation and decision making 16. Training perceptual-cognitive expertise: how should practice be structured? 17. Instructional approaches for developing anticipation and decision making in sport 18. Integrating performance analysis and perceptual-cognitive training 19. Virtual environments and their role in developing perceptual-cognitive skills in sports 20. Training under pressure: current perspectives and future directions 21. Transfer of expert visual-perceptual-motor skill in sport

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A. Mark Williams is Chair of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation at the University of Utah, USA. His research interests focus on the neural and psychological mechanisms underpinning the acquisition and development of expertise, with a particular focus on anticipation and decision making. He has published more than 200 journal articles in peer-reviewed outlets and written more than 80 book chapters. He has co-authored and edited 15 books and delivered more than 200 keynote and invited lectures in over 30 countries. He is a Fellow of the European College of Sports Science, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science, the National Academy of Kinesiology, and the British Psychological Society. He is Editor-in-Chief of several academic journals. Robin C. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology at Loughborough University, UK. His research on perceptual-cognitive expertise focusses on attentional processes in sports performance, notably in regard to anticipation and the perception of deceptive intent. He is also interested in the implications of this research for designing training protocols to develop skills that are robust under pressure. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He is a founding member of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology, and the Expertise and Skill Acquisition Network special interest group. He serves on the editorial board for several sport psychology journals and is Executive Editor of the Journal of Sports Sciences (Social and Behavioural Sciences).

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