%0 Journal Article %A Farrow, Damian %A Abernethy, Bruce %A Jackson, Robin %D 2016 %T Probing expert anticipation with the temporal occlusion paradigm: experimental investigations of some methodological issues %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Probing_expert_anticipation_with_the_temporal_occlusion_paradigm_experimental_investigations_of_some_methodological_issues/9613151 %K Anticipation %K Occlusion paradigms %K Ecological validity %K Expert performance %K Tennis %K Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified %X Two experiments were conducted to examine whether the conclusions drawn regarding the timing of anticipatory information pick-up from temporal occlusion studies are influenced by whether (a) the viewing period is of variable or fixed duration and (b) the task is a laboratory-based one with simple responses or a natural one requiring a coupled, interceptive movement response. Skilled and novice tennis players either made pencil-and-paper predictions of service direction (Experiment 1) or attempted to hit return strokes (Experiment 2) to tennis serves while their vision was temporally occluded in either a traditional progressive mode (where more information was revealed in each subsequent occlusion condition) or a moving window mode (where the visual display was only available for a fixed duration with this window shifted to different phases of the service action). Conclusions regarding the timing of information pick-up were generally consistent across display mode and across task setting lending support to the veracity and generalisability of findings regarding perceptual expertise in existing laboratory-based progressive temporal occlusion studies. %I Loughborough University