The Influence of Anxiety on Visual Attentional Control in Basketball Free Throw Shooting

The influence of anxiety on visual attentional control in basketball free throw shooting.

The aim of this study was to test the predictions of attentional control theory using the quiet eye period as an objective measure of attentional control. Ten basketball players took free throws in two counterbalanced experimental conditions designed to manipulate the anxiety they experienced. Point of gaze was measured using an ASL Mobile Eye tracker and fixations including the quiet eye were ...

Control of visual attention during the basketball free throw.

Motion and Emotion Distracters on Basketball Shooting 1 Running head: MOTION AND EMOTION DISTRACTERS ON BASKETBALL SHOOTING Motion and Emotion Distracters: Effects on Basketball Free Throw Shooting Accuracy

In the present study we tested if background visual stimuli can impede accuracy of basketball free throw shooting. Actions are frequently found to resist illusions in the psychological literature, but most such studies only utilize reaching or pointing. Other research reports that emotional arousal can affect motor control. We projected images onto a basketball backboard, either continuous moti...

Training visual control in wheelchair basketball shooting.

We examined the effects of visual control training on expert wheelchair basketball shooting, a skill more difficult than in regular basketball, as players shoot from a seated position to the same rim height. The training consisted of shooting with a visual constraint that forced participants to use target information as late as possible. Participants drove under a large screen that initially bl...

P98: Effect of Attentional Focus of Self-Statements in Basketball Practice on State Anxiety of Novice Players before Free Throw in front of Audience

The purpose of present study was investigation of the effect of attentional focus of novice players’ self-statements in basketball free throw practice on their state anxiety in transfer test with spectators’ presence. Therefore, 38 novice females (mean of the age=22 yrs.) who had intermediate trait anxiety were selected randomly by sports competitive anxiety test (SCAT). The participants were a...