Visual cueing in sport‐specific decision making

Abstract

In a series of three experiments, we tested whether specific information rich areas as well as the adequate size of the visual focus of attention can be captured in sport‐specific decision‐making processes by using a modified version of Posner's cueing paradigm. Different display areas were precued—using red cues of various sizes—to guide visual attention to several sources of information. It was hypothesized that response times in the decision‐making task would be faster if the precued area was an information rich area. In Experiments 1 and 2, that differed in complexity of the chosen decision‐making situations, the results did not reveal any reliable cueing effects. Therefore, in Experiment 3 we tested the hypothesis that the modified cueing approach used in Experiments 1 and 2 exceeded the basic methodological assumptions of Posner's cueing paradigm. The results of Experiment 3 supported this assumption