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Anticipation in sport: Fifty years on, what have we learned and what research still needs to be undertaken?

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posted on 2018-12-10, 14:58 authored by A. Mark Williams, Robin JacksonRobin Jackson
The ability to anticipate what will happen next is critical to performance in many sports as well as other professional domains. We review progress made in our scientific understanding of this topic since the seminal work conducted some 50 years ago. We highlight advances in methods and measures and identify the different perceptual-cognitive skills that have been identified by researchers as playing a pivotal role in anticipation. We examine how these perceptual-cognitive skills are used in a dynamic and interactive manner to facilitate anticipation, as well as how their importance varies due to the stress placed upon athletes by anxiety and fatigue. We summarise the impact of existing research on the development of training programs that facilitate acquisition of the skills underpinning anticipation. Finally, we provide some suggestions for future research in this area. We encourage continued growth in recent research exploring the role of contextual information in anticipation and present suggestions as to how the translational impact of this work can be increased in applied domains.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volume

42

Pages

16 - 24

Citation

WILLIAMS, A.M. and JACKSON, R.C., 2018. Anticipation in sport: Fifty years on, what have we learned and what research still needs to be undertaken?. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 42, pp.16-24.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Psychology of Sport and Exercise and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.11.014.

Acceptance date

2018-11-28

Publication date

2018-12-05

ISSN

1469-0292

Language

  • en