TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of attentional focus and cognitive load on novice dart throwing
T2 - Evidence from quiet eye duration and pupillary responses
AU - Asadi, Ayoub
AU - Saeedpour-Parizi, Mohammad
AU - Aiken, Christopher
AU - Jahanbani, Rose
AU - Hoomanian, Davood
AU - SIMPSON, THOMAS
AU - MARCHANT, DAVID
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of attentional focus and cognitive-load on motor performance, quiet-eye-duration, and pupil dilation. 18 participants completed a dart throwing task under four conditions, internal or external focus with high or low cognitive-load. Cognitive-load was created by a secondary tone detection task. During each trial participants pupil size and eye movements were recorded along with accuracy data of the dart throw. Results revealed that decreased cognitive-load increased accuracy while high load increased pupil size (p's < 0.05). An external focus resulted in the greatest accuracy while an external focus with high cognitive-load resulted in the longest quiet-eye-durations (p's < 0.05). Based on these findings an increase in pupil size is related to greater cognitive-load but doesn't explain the improvement in task performance. Likewise, an external focus of attention improved performance but was not strongly related to quiet-eye-duration. Results are further discussed in the article.
AB - The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of attentional focus and cognitive-load on motor performance, quiet-eye-duration, and pupil dilation. 18 participants completed a dart throwing task under four conditions, internal or external focus with high or low cognitive-load. Cognitive-load was created by a secondary tone detection task. During each trial participants pupil size and eye movements were recorded along with accuracy data of the dart throw. Results revealed that decreased cognitive-load increased accuracy while high load increased pupil size (p's < 0.05). An external focus resulted in the greatest accuracy while an external focus with high cognitive-load resulted in the longest quiet-eye-durations (p's < 0.05). Based on these findings an increase in pupil size is related to greater cognitive-load but doesn't explain the improvement in task performance. Likewise, an external focus of attention improved performance but was not strongly related to quiet-eye-duration. Results are further discussed in the article.
KW - focus of attention
KW - Gaze control
KW - pupillometry
KW - Cognitive Load
KW - Motor Control
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U2 - 10.1016/j.humov.2022.103015
DO - 10.1016/j.humov.2022.103015
M3 - Article (journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85139724449
SN - 0167-9457
VL - 86
JO - Human Movement Science
JF - Human Movement Science
M1 - 103015
ER -