Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club, UK.
Perception. 2024 Mar;53(3):149-162. doi: 10.1177/03010066231223825. Epub 2024 Jan 10.
Pattern recognition is a defining characteristic of expertise across multiple domains. Given the dynamic interactions at local and global levels, team sports can provide a vehicle for investigating skilled pattern recognition. The aims of this study were to investigate whether global patterns could be recognised on the basis of localised relational information and if relations between certain display features were more important than others for successful pattern recognition. Elite ( = 20), skilled ( = 34) and less-skilled ( = 37) soccer players completed three recognition paradigms of stimuli presented in point-light format across three counterbalanced conditions: 'whole-part'; 'part-whole'; and 'whole-whole'. 'Whole' clips represented a 11 vs. 11 soccer match and 'part' clips presented the same passages of play with only two central attacking players or two peripheral players shown. Elite players recognised significantly more accurately than the skilled and less-skilled groups. Participants were significantly more accurate in the 'whole-whole' condition compared to others, and recognised stimuli featuring the two central attacking players significantly more accurately than those featuring peripheral players. Findings provide evidence that elite players can encode localised relations and then extrapolate this information to recognise more global macro patterns.
模式识别是多个领域专业知识的一个重要特征。鉴于局部和全局水平的动态相互作用，团队运动可以为研究熟练的模式识别提供一个载体。本研究的目的是调查是否可以基于局部关系信息来识别全局模式，以及对于成功的模式识别，某些显示特征之间的关系是否比其他关系更重要。20 名精英球员、34 名熟练球员和 37 名技术较差的球员在三个平衡条件下完成了三个基于光点格式呈现的刺激的识别范式：“整体-部分”“部分-整体”和“整体-整体”。“整体”片段代表了 11 对 11 的足球比赛，而“部分”片段则呈现了相同的比赛段落，只显示了两名中央攻击球员或两名外围球员。与技术较差的球员相比，精英球员的识别准确率显著更高。与其他条件相比，参与者在“整体-整体”条件下的准确率显著更高，并且识别出具有两名中央攻击球员的刺激的准确率显著高于具有外围球员的刺激。研究结果表明，精英球员可以编码局部关系，然后推断这些信息来识别更全局的宏观模式。
