SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2022
Differences in visual search behavior between expert and novice team sports athletes: A systematic review with meta-analysis.
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- A meta-analysis of performance advantages on athletes in multiple object tracking tasks.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
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- Effects of mental fatigue on basketball decision-making and visual search behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Visual search characteristics in two-way skeet shooters of different performance levels during simulated target viewing.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Visual search advantages in tactical decision-making of male soccer players: evidence from 3V2 and 3V3 scenarios.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Visual information processing characteristics of tactical decisions of soccer players in 3V3 offense scenarios.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
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- Exploring the experiences of dancers who have achieved peak performance: on-stage, pre-stage, and post-stage.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Cognition in elite soccer players: a general model.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Effects of object working memory load on visual search in basketball players: an eye movement study.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Visual Search Strategies of Elite Fencers: An Exploratory Study in Ecological Competitive Situation.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2023Article
- Eye-tracking technology and the dynamics of natural gaze behavior in sports: an update 2016-2022.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background: For a long time, in sports, researchers have tried to understand an expert by comparing them with novices, raising the doubts if the visual search characteristics distinguish experts from novices. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to review and conduct a meta-analysis to evaluate the differences in visual search behavior between experts and novices in team sports athletes. Methods: This systematic review with meta-analysis followed the PRISMA 2020 and Cochrane's guidelines. Healthy team athletes were included, which engaged in regular practice, from any sex or competitive level, specifically classified Results: From a total of 6,257 records, of which 985 were duplicates, titles and abstracts of 5,272 were screened, and 45 required full-text analysis. Of those, 23 were excluded due to not fulfilling the eligibility criteria regarding participants. In the end, 22 studies were selected, however, as two studies were part of the same trial and were analyzed conjointly. Discussion: Experts showed to be older and with more years of practice. The ability to distinguish experts from novices was not so clear regarding the variables analyzed. This could be due to the strategies chosen in each study, which were specific to each scenario, and when grouping all together, it was lost information within non-representative averages. The distinction between experts and novices was not clear, showing a lot of heterogeneity in the included studies. The expert classification itself may have been the conditioning aspect for these results, retaining the doubt and the need for more studies in the field. Systematic review registration: The protocol was pre-registered in OSF (project https://osf.io/3j4qv/, register https://osf.io/dvk2n).
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