Transfer of pattern recall skills may contribute to the development of sport expertise

By Bruce Abernethy, J. Baker, J. Côté. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

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Evidence-based policies for youth sport programmes (2016, background): “…athletes who experience a diversified sport background can still reach an elite level of performance (Bloom 1985, Carlson 1988, Baker et al. 2003b, Abernethy et al. 2005), and, indeed, for some team ball sports, diversity of experience seems to be more prevalent among the more successful athletes…”
Play and practice in the development of sport‐specific creativity in team ball sports (2010, background): “Just as in more explicit cognitive processes (such as pattern recognition, Abernethy et al., 2005), involvement in a diverse range of sport and physical activities may be valuable for the development of creativity.”
Overuse injuries and burnout in youth sports: a position statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (2014, background): “Diversified sports training during early and middle adolescence may be a more effective strategy in ultimately developing elite-level skills in the primary sport due to a positive transfer of skills.(136) Consideration should be given to delaying intensive, specialized training until late adolescenc”
Talent development in sport: A critical review of pathways to expert performance (2016, background): “It has also been suggested that the skills and physiological conditioning developed through a diversified childhood sport involvement may be transferable to the sport in which the athlete later specialises.(35,63) However, Côté and colleagues(19,24) suggested that as the athlete progresses in sport,”
What do we know about early sport specialization? Not much! (2009, background): “While visual search and scanning patterns of player movement and pattern configurations may help to explain this selective transfer between sports (Abernethy et al., 2005), further research in this area would assist in determining the type of sports that promote transfer and the mechanisms by which…”
Characteristics of expert development in rhythmic gymnastics: A retrospective study (2007, background): “Further, Abernethy, Baker, and Côté (2005) recently demonstrated that expert team-sport athletes who had been involved in several other sports consistently outperformed non-experts in a recall task of defensive players’ position .”
Perceptual-cognitive expertise in sport and its acquisition: implications for applied cognitive psychology (2011, background): “Similarly, Abernethy et al. (2005) reported some selective transfer of recognition skills in groups of expert netball, basketball, and field-hockey players. Although findings illustrate the possibility that perceptualcognitive expertise may transfer across sports, at no point did athletes perform be”
Expertise and expert performance in sport (2008, background): “Although there is empirical evidence to suggest that some elements transfer from one related sport to another, when it comes to perceptual-cognitive skills such as anticipation and decision-making, the level of performance achieved in the non-dominant sport is typically well below that achieved in t”