Visual attentional orienting in developing hockey players

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Efficient processing of abrupt stimuli, sustained alertness and skillful voluntary orienting are the important components of covert visual attentional orienting associated with skill in developing hockey players. High-skill players exhibit small information cue-orienting effects, and optimally utilize the general alerting effect produced by the sudden onset of a cue. High-skill players also exhibit a larger change in response time over cue-target interval. The differences in visual-spatial attentional orienting of 12- and 15-yr-old high-skill and low-skill hockey players and college students with no training in hockey are discussed.

Analysis, Athletic ability, Visual perception, Perceptual orientation, Orientation (Psychology), Hockey players

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Clusters precede shapes in perceptual organization

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Two experiments on the enumeration of clusters and specific shapes were conducted to demonstrate that clustering and shape formation are separable operations that have different attentional requirements. The strategy used tested the importance of element connectedness in two enumeration tasks. These operations are decoupled empirically, and since they serve different functional roles in vision, further research on perpetual grouping should profit from taking distinctions into consideration.

Form perception, Perceptual learning, Form perception (Psychology)

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Mental-attentional capacity: does cognitive style make a difference

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The Children's Embedded Figure Test and the Figural Intersection Task were used to assess the field dependence/independence and the mental-attentional capacity of school-age children respectively to determine the influence of field dependence on cognitive ability. Results reveal that field-dependent children had lower mental-attentional capacity scores compared to their field-independent counterparts. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Children, Students, Cognition in children, Cognitive development, School children, Field dependence (Psychology)

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