346 – How Do Action Capabilities Constrain Affordance Perception & Decision Making

How do an athlete’s action capabilities (e.g. their speed, power, movement time) influence their abilities to perceive affordances and make decisions? How well calibrated are these things? Can we improve perception and decision making by increasing action capacity?

 

Articles:

But I can’t pass that far! The influence of motor skill on decision making

The influence of instructions and body-scaling as constraints on decision-making processes in team sports

Individual differences in the visual control of intercepting a penalty kick in association football

Action capability constrains visuo-motor complexity during planning and performance in on-sight climbing

Goalkeeping in the soccer penalty kick: The dive is coordinated to the kicker’s non-kicking leg placement, irrespective of time constraints

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