title: Classical pattern recall tests and the prospective nature of expert performance.
abstract: It is well established that experts are particularly adept at recalling and/or recognizing the key features of domain-relevant patterns. We compared the recall performance of expert and novice basketball players when viewing static and moving patterns. A novel method of analysis was used where the accuracy of the participants in recalling player positions was compared to actual player positions both at the final frame of pattern presentation and at 50 successive 40 ms increments thereafter. Experts encoded the locations of the players in both the static and moving patterns significantly further in advance of their actual finishing point than did nonexperts. Experts' use of an anticipatory encoding process, which was of a magnitude unmatched by nonexperts, suggests that many previous investigations may have underestimated the extent of the expert advantage in pattern recall.
authors.affiliation: Movement Science-Skill Acquisition, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra, ACT 2617, Australia. adam.gorman@ausport.gov.au
authors.forename: Adam D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Gorman
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Abernethy
authors.forename: Damian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farrow
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001490:Basketball / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D009039:Motion Perception; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011361:Professional Competence; D014741:Video Recording; D055815:Young Adult