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de Oliveira, Rita Ferraz; Oudejans, Raoul R. D.; Beek, Peter J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
For successful basketball shooting, players must use information about the location of the basket relative to themselves. In this study, the authors examined to what extent shooting performance depends on the absolute distance to the basket ("m") and the angle of elevation (alpha). In Experiment 1, expert players took jump shots under different…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Athletes, Spatial Ability, Physics