ABSTRACT
Is it possible that team sport athletes can transfer some visual search strategies, such as the ‘anchor-strategy’, consisting of fixating our gaze between two events/objects in order to capture relevant information (without eye/head movements) (eg Bard and Fleury, 1976; Beek, 1989; Kato and Fukuda, 2002)? Furthermore, it is possible that systematic practice of very perceptual demanding activity, such as ‘invasion’ team sports, can facilitate the learning of another equally demanding activity such as driving? Driving performance may therefore profit from some sort of positive transfer from experience in playing sports. Recently, some researchers (Kane et al, 1999; Hancock et al, 2002) concluded that there was an evident transfer from sport engagement in some features of driving, namely at a tactical level. That being the case, systematic sport practice may be advantageous for driving performance and this is the topic of the present study.
