Cognitive sport psychology is an emerging reality in experimental human science for understanding how athletes develop mental strategies to optimise performance. This aim can be achieved, for example, by using the paradigms of visual sciences in analysing sensorial cues available to the athlete when performing a specific action. In an ecological environment, a group of athletes of the 'optimist' category have been tested in the visual task of judging the distance between their position and the virtual line at the start of a regatta. It has been found that there is a good estimation of the distance in the proximity of both the jury boat and the buoy, while there is an underestimation of the distance at the centre of the regatta field, and an anomalous overestimation of the distance in the space between the central part of the alignment and the buoy.
Visual cues and distance estimation in sailing
GALMONTE, Alessandra;
2005-01-01
Abstract
Cognitive sport psychology is an emerging reality in experimental human science for understanding how athletes develop mental strategies to optimise performance. This aim can be achieved, for example, by using the paradigms of visual sciences in analysing sensorial cues available to the athlete when performing a specific action. In an ecological environment, a group of athletes of the 'optimist' category have been tested in the visual task of judging the distance between their position and the virtual line at the start of a regatta. It has been found that there is a good estimation of the distance in the proximity of both the jury boat and the buoy, while there is an underestimation of the distance at the centre of the regatta field, and an anomalous overestimation of the distance in the space between the central part of the alignment and the buoy.
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