A descriptive case study of skilled football goalkeepers during 1 v 1 dyads: a case for adaptive variability in the quiet eye

FRANKS, Benjamin, ROBERTS, William M., JAKEMAN, John, SWAIN, Jonathan and DAVIDS, Keith (2022). A descriptive case study of skilled football goalkeepers during 1 v 1 dyads: a case for adaptive variability in the quiet eye. Frontiers in Psychology, 13.

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Abstract

Evidence investigating skilled performers in sport suggests that a prominent component of skilled behavior is, in part, due to the development of more effective and efficient perception-action couplings. Further, the Quiet Eye has emerged as a useful tool in which to investigate how skilled performers regulate action through fixating on visual information within the immediate environment before the onset of a goal directed movement. However, only a few contributions to the literature have attempted to examine the individual variations within these Quiet Eye fixations in skilled participants. In this case study, we first asked how goalkeepers control their actions, via the Quiet Eye in a representative task. Second, we sought to examine whether inter- and intra- individual differences in the Quiet Eye are present in skilled goalkeepers as a functional component of skilled performance. Results were consistent with previous work on football goalkeepers, with QE fixations located at the ball and visual pivot. However, individual analysis reveals different Quiet Eye gaze patterning between (inter) and within (intra) the goalkeepers during saving actions. To conclude, we have provided a descriptive case study in attempt to understand the Quiet Eye behaviors of a skilled sample of professional goalkeepers. In doing so we have suggested how adaptive variability, founded upon an Ecological Dynamics framework, may provide further insight into the function of the Quiet Eye.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: ** From Frontiers via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ **Journal IDs: eissn 1664-1078 **History: published_online 07-07-2022; accepted 23-05-2022; submitted 30-03-2022; collection 2022
Uncontrolled Keywords: Psychology, quiet-eye, perception—action, ecological dynamics, goalkeeping, football
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.908123
SWORD Depositor: Colin Knott
Depositing User: Colin Knott
Date Deposited: 26 Jul 2022 14:23
Last Modified: 12 Oct 2023 11:01
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/30478

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