IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v18y2021i21p11281-d665903.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Stereopsis in Sports: Visual Skills and Visuomotor Integration Models in Professional and Non-Professional Athletes

Author

Listed:
  • Valentina Presta

    (Department of Medicine & Surgery (DiMeC), University of Parma, 43126 Parma, Italy)

  • Costanza Vitale

    (TSRM-PSTRP National Federation, 43126 Parma, Italy)

  • Luca Ambrosini

    (Department of Medicine & Surgery (DiMeC), University of Parma, 43126 Parma, Italy)

  • Giuliana Gobbi

    (Department of Medicine & Surgery (DiMeC), University of Parma, 43126 Parma, Italy)

Abstract

Visual skills in sport are considered relevant variables of athletic performance. However, data on the specific contribution of stereopsis—as the ability to perceive depth—in sport performance are still scarce and scattered in the literature. The aim of this review is therefore to take stock of the effects of stereopsis on the athletic performance, also looking at the training tools to improve visual abilities and potential differences in the visuomotor integration processes of professional and non-professional athletes. Dynamic stereopsis is mainly involved in catching or interceptive actions of ball sports, whereas strategic sports use different visual skills (peripheral and spatial vision) due to the sport-specific requirements. As expected, professional athletes show better visual skills as compared to non-professionals. However, both non-professional and professional athletes should train their visual skills by using sensory stations and light boards systems. Non-professional athletes use the visual inputs as the main method for programming motor gestures. In contrast, professional athletes integrate visual information with sport expertise, thus, they encode the match (or the athletic performance) through a more complex visuomotor integration system. Although studies on visual skills and stereopsis in sports still appear to be in their early stages, they show a large potential for both scientific knowledge and technical development.

Suggested Citation

  • Valentina Presta & Costanza Vitale & Luca Ambrosini & Giuliana Gobbi, 2021. "Stereopsis in Sports: Visual Skills and Visuomotor Integration Models in Professional and Non-Professional Athletes," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(21), pages 1-10, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:21:p:11281-:d:665903
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11281/pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/21/11281/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Tena & Xabier Rodríguez-Alonso & Clara Martinez-Perez & José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera & Vicente J. Clemente-Suárez & Celia Sanchez-Ramos & Cristina Alvarez-Peregrina, 2023. "Comparison of Visual Skills between Federated and Non-Federated Athletes," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-12, January.
    2. Dané Coetzee & Elna de Waal, 2022. "An Exploratory Investigation of the Effect of a Sports Vision Program on Grade 4 and 5 Female Netball Players’ Visual Skills," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(16), pages 1-17, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:21:p:11281-:d:665903. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.