A Communal Language for Decision Making in Team Invasion Sports

Invasion team sports coaches are faced with the problem of developing players who, in any given situation, can make decisions that lead to successful outcomes. Research into human decision making has established three widely accepted perspectives, which sports coaching has used to understand player decision making and inform practice: information processing, ecological psychology and naturalistic decision making. As a result, coaches are challenged with perspective-specific terminology and having to draw connections between similar findings that are explained in quite different ways. This conceptual paper presents a plainer account of player decision making by proposing a communal language within a conceptual framework for decision making in invasion team sports. It is hoped that the proposed language and framework will, together, facilitate knowledge exchange between researchers and coaches for the betterment of player development

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What kind of processes underlie decision making in soccer simulation? An implicit-memory investigation.

International audienceAbstract Many researchers have used simulation to study the cognitive processes that underlie the decision‐making skills of expert athletes. However, we have seen that these studies used an explicit‐memory paradigm that does not uncover the processes responsible for the emergence of decisions made during a game. They have primarily been concerned with describing elementary operations rather than with identifying the nature of the processes involved. We therefore chose a priming paradigm, in an attempt to identify the decision‐making processes implemented during a simulated game. The results showed that the nature of the processing depended on the characteristics of the decision‐making task being considered. When the task required a one‐step decision, low‐level processes were utilized; when it required a series of planned actions, expert players implemented high‐level processes

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Un simulateur pour l’entraînement en football

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