title: How specific is domain specificity: does it extend across playing position?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The current study sought to examine the scope of domain specificity within a sport expertise context through the examination of positional specificity effects in the sport of netball.
  
  
  METHODS
  Skilled goalers, centre court and defenders along with less skilled (novice) participants were tested on a video-based decision making task.
  
  
  METHODS
  Skilled and less skilled netballers completed a video-based decision making task, comprising scenarios from the three different positional areas in netball (goalers, centre court and defence). Participants completed the scenarios from the playing position they were most familiar with, followed by the remaining two positions in a counterbalanced order.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Analysis of the goaler and defence scenarios revealed that the skilled goalers and centre court players were significantly more accurate than the novice players, whilst the skilled defenders did not differ to the other three groups (skilled goalers, skilled centre court and novice). For the centre court scenarios the skilled centre court players and defenders were significantly more accurate than the novice players, whilst the skilled goalers did not differ to any of the groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Limited evidence was shown to support the theory that decision making is specific to the position being played with the goalers and the centre court players most accurate on the attack and centre court scenarios respectively.
authors.affiliation: Australian Institute of Sport, Leverrier Crescent, Bruce, ACT, Australia. lyndell.bruce@rmit.edu.au
authors.forename: Lyndell
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.forename: Damian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farrow
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raynor
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054874:Athletic Performance / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D055815:Young Adult