Behavioral and cognitive features of anticipatory visual perception of a moving stimulus: representational momentum in sports experts and developmental/aging nature

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25242060
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Imanaka Kuniyasu 首都大学東京, 人間健康科学研究科, 客員教授 (90100891)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 中本 浩揮 鹿屋体育大学, スポーツ人文・応用社会科学系, 准教授 (10423732) ; 宮崎 真 静岡大学, 情報学部, 教授 (30392202) ; 白井 述 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 准教授 (50554367) ; 石原 正規 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (60611522) ; 山田 祐樹 九州大学, 基幹教育院, 准教授 (60637700) ; 森 司朗 鹿屋体育大学, 体育学部, 教授 (80200369)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-10-21 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 予測的知覚 / 表象的慣性 / 熟練者 / 発育発達

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We examined the features of representational momentum (anticipatory visual perception of a moving stimulus) in sports experts and its developmental/aging nature. Our results showed that the magnitude of RM in baseball experts was larger than that in novices and the higher RM contributed to the accuracy of coincidence-timing to a moving object. In contrast, Taekwondo experts showed no advantage in RM magnitude nor its contribution to anticipation. For the developmental and aging features of RM, younger children showed a largest RM compared to both younger and older adults, with the younger adults showing a larger RM than that of older adults. These findings suggested that the feature of RM is twofold: RM is developed in early childhood and then deteriorated with maturity/aging; and RM is also developed by some sports expertise, depending on sports type, such as baseball and Taekwondo.

Free Research Field

スポーツ心理学