%0 Journal Article
%T The Field of View is More Useful in Golfers than Regular
Exercisers
%A Karen Murphy
%J Archive of "Advances in Cognitive Psychology".
%D 2017
%R 10.5709/acp-0207-4
%X Superior visual attention skills are vital for excellent sports performance. This study used a cognitive skills approach to examine expert and novice differences in a visual spatial attention task. Thirty-two males aged 18 to 42 years completed this study in return for course credit or monetary incentive. Participants were expert golfers (N = 18) or exercise controls (N = 14). Spatial attention was assessed using the useful field of view task which required participants to locate a target shown 10กใ, 20กใ, and 30กใ of eccentricity from centre in very brief presentations. At each degree of eccentricity, golfers were more accurate at locating the target than the exercise controls. These results provide support for the broad transfer hypothesis by demonstrating a link between golf expertise and better performance on an objective measure of spatial attention skills. Therefore, it appears that sports expertise can transfer to expertise in non-sport related tasks
%K visual attention
%K expert golfers
%K exercise controls
%K useful field of view
%K broad transfer hypothesis
%K cognitive skills approach
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5403739/