ABSTRACT

This chapter explains the applied implications that stem from the extant literature on decision-making and explores ecological approach as a framework to study the mechanisms that underpin perceptual skill in sport. It presents the wider body of perceptual skill literature, which includes both visual anticipation and decision-making studies. An established body of existing research supports the idea that skilled performance in complex and dynamic team sports is founded upon accurate decision-making. An aim for some researchers has been to understand how video-and more recently virtual reality technologies-can be used as part of a non-physical, off-field, training intervention to supplement on-field practice. It follows that findings from video simulation studies of decision-making have tended to provide a starting point for decision-making training studies. Increasing the variability of conditions in practice via the manipulation of task constraints in adaptive games can enhance accuracy in decision-making, while also holding potential to cater for individual differences in perceptual skill.