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Differences in Visuospatial Expertise between Skeet Shooting Athletes and Non-Athletes

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  • Henrique Nascimento

    (ISEC Lisboa—Instituto de Educação e Ciência de Lisboa, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal)

  • Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina

    (Faculty of Biomedical and Health Science, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain)

  • Clara Martinez-Perez

    (ISEC Lisboa—Instituto de Educação e Ciência de Lisboa, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal)

  • Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena

    (ISEC Lisboa—Instituto de Educação e Ciência de Lisboa, 1750-179 Lisboa, Portugal
    Department of Optometry and Vision, Faculty of Optics and Optometry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28037 Madrid, Spain)

Abstract

Background: Sports vision is a specialisation of optometry whose objective is to improve and preserve visual function to increase sports performance. The main objective of the present study was to compare the visual expertise of non-athletes to skeet shooting athletes. Methods: Participants underwent an optometric assessment in which all those with severe deviations from normal vision, after compensating for visual abnormalities, were eliminated. After that, the following six visuospatial components were measured: hand–eye coordination, peripheral awareness, fixation disparity, saccadic eye movements, speed of recognition and visual memory. To measure the aforementioned components, the following tests were used: directional arrows, similar and different characters, the dichromatic disparity test, character marking, a tachistoscopic test and tic-tac-toe using COI-vision software. Results: Skeet shooting athletes performed significatively better ( p ≤ 0.05) in two out of the six tests: hand–eye coordination and visual memory. Conclusions: Although this study does not support the theory that athletes—in this case, skeet shooting athletes—perform significantly better in most components of the visuospatial tests, visual memory and hand–eye coordination are exceptions. To be more accurate in distinguishing between athletes and non-athletes, specific testing methods that can be used by a wide variety of disciplines should be developed. Training the weakest aspects of athletes can improve their sports performance.

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  • Henrique Nascimento & Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina & Clara Martinez-Perez & Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena, 2021. "Differences in Visuospatial Expertise between Skeet Shooting Athletes and Non-Athletes," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(15), pages 1-12, July.
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    1. Henrique Nascimento & Clara Martinez-Perez & Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina & Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena, 2020. "Citations Network Analysis of Vision and Sport," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(20), pages 1-22, October.
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