Journal
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 327-337Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02640410903502782
Keywords
Interception; information-movement coupling; expertise; ball sports
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Funding
- European Network [IST-2002-002114]
- European Network of Enactive Interfaces [IST-2002-002114]
- ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) [Blan 06-1_134792]
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We compared the performance of tennis experts and non-experts using a simulated interceptive task, in which the ball could be unexpectedly deviated 400 ms before contact. The results showed that experts were more accurate than non-experts when intercepting balls that deviated in their trajectory and that this could be explained by their shorter visuo-motor delay in adapting their interceptive movement. In addition, multiple regression analyses revealed that visuo-motor delay was a good predictor of accuracy in this task. Finally, accuracy in the simulated interceptive task was shown to be a reasonable predictor of expertise in tennis assessed by national ranking. In combination, the present results suggest that an important component of expertise in interceptive skills is fast information-movement coupling, which corresponds to a reduced delay in integrating vision and action. Our findings highlight the potential of the virtual interceptive task used here to predict performance in tennis.
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