title: Control over the processing of the opponent's gaze direction in basketball experts.
abstract: Basketball players' responses to an opposing players' pass direction are typically delayed when the opposing player gazes in another than the pass direction. Here, we studied the role of basketball expertise on this, the so-called head-fake effect, in three groups of participants (basketball experts, soccer players, and non-athletes). The specific focus was on the dependency of the head-fake effect on previous fake experience as an index of control over the processing of task-irrelevant gaze information. Whereas (overall) the head-fake effect was of similar size in all expertise groups, preceding fake experience removed the head-fake effect in basketball players, but not in non-experts. Accordingly, basketball expertise allows for higher levels of control over the processing of task-irrelevant gaze information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport and Health, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany. matthias.weigelt@uni-paderborn.de.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weigelt
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport and Health, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Güldenpenning
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport and Health, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany.
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Steggemann-Weinrich
authors.affiliation: Department of Sport and Health, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany.
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alhaj Ahmad Alaboud
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Würzburg University, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Wilfried
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kunde
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D056352:Athletes / Q000523:psychology*; D001490:Basketball / Q000523:psychology*; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D012916:Soccer / Q000523:psychology; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Expertise in sports; Gaze direction; Head fake; Information processing