Perceptual and Cognitive Skill Development in Soccer: The Multidimensional Nature of Expert Performance

By Paul Ward, A. M. Williams, Liverpool John Moores. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Social Psychology

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The Standard Model of Talent Development and Its Discontents (2013, background): “…do seem to be associated with long-term development and retention in sport, such as FMS (Morley, 2008; Haywood & Gretchell, 2001), certain perceptual and cognitive skills (Ward & Williams, 2003), and learning-orientated motivation to participate (Duda, 2001) might be overlooked in the short-term.”
PREDICTORS OF ATTACK EFFICACY AND ATTACK TYPE IN HIGH-LEVEL BRAZILIAN WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL (2014, background): “Therefore, the concept of probabilities should be applied when analysing team sport (Ranyard & Charlton, 2006; Ward & Williams, 2003), and statistical analysis attempting to detect game patterns should apply multivariate analyses (Lames & McGarry, 2007), respecting the complexity of the game and…”
Shared and coordinated cognition in competitive and dynamic task environments: An information‐processing perspective for team sports (2006, background): “After information from the environment is perceived, it is then processed At this point, the athlete selects information and focuses on the information that is relevant to his or her goals and objectives, and to future events Information that is deemed irrelevant is ignored On the basis of the selec”
Giftedness and evidence for reproducibly superior performance: an account based on the expert performance framework (2007, background): “…than any general basic capacities, such as better basic acuity of the their sensory perceptual systems and/or faster basic speed of their motor systems, which do not predict expert performance (for reviews see Starkes & Deakin, 1984; Abernethy, 1991; Williams & Ward, 2003; Ward & Williams, 2005).”
The relative age effect in youth soccer across Europe (2005, background): “This relative lack of experience is another disadvantage for those born far from the cutoff date (see Ward & Williams, 2003; Ward, Hodges, Williams, Starkes, 2004).”
Expertise and expert performance in sport (2008, background): “The experts’ superior ability to ‘hedge their bets’ in relation to likely event probabilities has been demonstrated empirically in soccer (Ward & Williams, 2003) and cricket (McRobert et al., 2007).”
Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction (2011, background): “…& Bennett, 2002; Williams, Hodges, North, & Barton, 2006) found distinct differences in low-and high-skilled players’ ability to recall patterns of play, use visual search patterns, monitor opponent’s postural orientation prior to key events, and anticipate event outcomes (Ward & Williams, 2003).”
The road to excellence: deliberate practice and the development of expertise (2007, background): “…practice activities, such as technical skills, by elite players and differences between skill groups with respect to time spent in tactical and strategic decision-making activities suggests that these activities are likely to contribute to their superior performance (see Ward & Williams, 2003).”
Relative age effect in elite sports: Methodological bias or real discrimination? (2010, background): “This access to top-level competition can be a springboard to their future sport career (Ward & Williams, 2003; Williams, 2000), considering the technical and strategic skills it may bring.”
What do we see out of the corner of our eye? The role of visual pivots and gaze anchors in sport (2019, background): “So far, reviews on the role of vision in sports have focused on non-task-specific visual capabilities such as static acuity, depth perception or the range of the peripheral visual field (see Appelbaum & Erickson, 2018; Starkes & Deakin, 1984; Ward & Williams, 2003).”
Does Grit Influence Sport-Specific Engagement and Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise in Elite Youth Soccer? (2016, methodology): “…assessment; although there has been evidence to imply that video-based measures can differentiate skill-based differences (Ward et al., 2013; Ward & Williams, 2003; Williams et al., 2006), there is still limited evidence to demonstrate performance on video-based assessments reflect actual…”
Agility and Change-of-Direction Speed are Independent Skills: Implications for Training for Agility in Invasion Sports (2015, background): “A later study [31] showed that elite junior soccer players were 6% more accurate (p>0.”
Annual Age-Grouping and Athlete Development (2009, background): “Selection and exposure to practice and match-play may provide significant technical and game intelligence advantages([33,34]) to selected relatively older players, accounting for their overrepresentation in senior professional sports.”