Advance Visual Information, Awareness, and Anticipation Skill

Abstract

Closed access.The authors examined 13 skilled, 13 recreational,\ud and 11 novice players’ awareness of the advance visual information\ud that they used to judge tennis serve direction. Participants\ud viewed video clips of serve actions under 5 conditions of spatial\ud occlusion. The authors assessed participants’ awareness by comparing\ud the different groups’ confidence associated with correct\ud and incorrect judgments and by conducting a postexperiment\ud free-recall test. The results indicated that information from the\ud ball toss and the arm + racquet region underpinned players’\ud anticipation skill and that greater expertise was accompained by\ud increasing awareness of the information on which judgments were\ud based. The authors discuss the implications of the present results\ud for researchers’ use of confidence ratings to assess awareness in\ud perceptual-judgment tasks