Abstract: The interest of researchers to study visual perception of athletes has been there for numerous decades as a proxy to gain a better understanding of decision-making, anticipation and expertise in sport (Hüttermann et al., 2018). Through vision (and other senses) the athletes remain attuned to the flow of the match by keeping track of positions of teammates and opponents to inform their subsequent defensive and offensive actions. Scanning is well-established in football research, beginning with the influential work of Jordet (2005), where it has since been highlighted as being an important contributor to successful game performance (Jordet et al., 2020). However, perceptual expertise is domain specific and researchers need to take into account the unique sport demands. It is indeed often hard to draw inference and directly transfer the findings from one sport to another. For example, while football and ice hockey share the characteristics of invasion team sports, there are substantial differences between them. These include playing field dimensions (i.e., size, shape, surface), number of players, position differences, rules, tactical tendencies, and objects that the sports are played with (i.e., puck/ball, skates/shoes, stick/no stick) and so on. To date there has only been one study examining scanning in ice hockey (Berg et al., 2024) and many questions still remain unanswered. In this presentation, I am going to share my PhD journey to date by providing an overview of preliminary results from the exploratory studies conducted to date and outline the research plan going forward.
Biography: Vladislav Bespomoshchnov is a PhD Research Fellow at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Prior to this role, he was a Learning and Development Coordinator at the Sports Institute of Finland and a Lecturer in the Degree Programme in Sports Coaching and Management at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Vierumäki, Finland. His areas of interest include coach and athlete development, leadership, skill acquisition, and concussion prevention. He has a background in ice hockey coaching and strength and conditioning.
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