title: Perceptual visual skills in young highly skilled basketball players.
abstract: A simple method was designed to evaluate visual abilities such as disance visual acuity, binocular horizontal visual field, simple and choice visual reaction times, and stereoscopic vision in skilled 11- to 13-yr.-old basketball players participating in a 15-day summer training camp. On a test battery, visual abilities were monitored in 473 players of the Spanish Basketball Federation over a 5-yr. period. The players showed outstanding scores on distance visual acuity and stereoscopic vision, and good visual reaction times and horizontal visual fields. When scores were compared by sex and age, significant differences on certain visual measures were observed. Many layers showed crossed eye-hand dominance. Visual screening programs may help promote visual health among junior basketball players and could be used for performance training.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (INEF), Technical University of Madrid.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sillero Quintana
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Refoyo Román
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lorenzo Calvo
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sampedro Molinuevo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001490:Basketball / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003867:Depth Perception; D004215:Distance Perception; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D009949:Orientation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D014787:Vision Tests; D015348:Vision, Binocular; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014796:Visual Perception