Tapping the Full Potential? Jumping Performance of Volleyball Athletes in Game-Like Situations

Frontiers in Psychology

Marie-Therese Fleddermann¹ 

关键词: dual-task;    cognitive-motor interference;    block jumping;    elite sports;    perceptual-cognitive expertise;    volleyball;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01375

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: One key issue in elite interactive team sports is the simultaneous execution of motor actions (e.g., dribbling a ball) and perceptual-cognitive tasks (e.g., visually scanning the environment for action choices). In volleyball, one typical situation is to prepare and execute maximal block jumps after multiple-options decision-making and concurrent visual tracking of the ongoing game dynamics to find an optimal blocking location. Based on resource-related dual- and multi-tasking theories simultaneous execution of visual-cognitive and motor tasks may interfere with each other. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether volleyball-specific perceptual-cognitive demands (i.e., divided attention, decision making) affect blocking performance (i.e., jumping performance and length of the first step after the ready-block-position) compared to relatively isolated jumping performance.

【 授权许可】

CC BY