Memory for the Functional Characteristics of Climbing Walls: Perceiving Affordances
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Motor Behavior
- Vol. 34 (1), 25-36
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00222890209601928
Abstract
In 2 experiments, differences in visual perception of climbing routes (route finding) between 7 expert climbers, 4 novices, and 9 inexperienced participants were studied. In both experiments, participants reproduced on a scale model the locations and orientations of 23 holds of a climbing wall. The results showed that the expert climbers recalled more information and recalled clusters of information and that they focused on the functional aspects of a climbing wall, whereas they neglected its structural features. Inexperienced participants did not recall such clustered information, and they reported almost exclusively the structural features of the holds. The perception of nested affordances and the expert climbers' neglect of details are discussed.Keywords
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