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Long- and short-term plastic modeling of action prediction abilities in volleyball

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Athletes show superior abilities not only in executing complex actions, but also in anticipating others’ moves. Here, we explored how visual and motor experiences contribute to forge elite action prediction abilities in volleyball players. Both adult athletes and supporters were more accurate than novices in predicting the fate of volleyball floating services by viewing the initial ball trajectory, while only athletes could base their predictions on body kinematics. Importantly, adolescents assigned to physical practice training improved their ability to predict the fate of the actions by reading body kinematics, while those assigned to the observational practice training improved only in understanding the ball trajectory. The results suggest that physical and observational practice might provide complementary and mutually reinforcing contributions to the superior perceptual abilities of elite athletes. Moreover, direct motor experience is required to establish novel perceptuo-motor representations that are used to predict others’ actions ahead of realization.

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This work was supported by grants from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia SEED 2009 (Prot. n. 21538) and from the Ministero Istruzione Università e Ricerca (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale, PRIN 2009; Prot. n. 2009A8FR3Z) to C.U. and S.M.A and from Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico ‘‘E. Medea’’ (Ricerca Corrente 2009, Ministero della Salute) to C.U. We thank Dr. Claudia Lopes for her help in data collection.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Udine, via Margreth, 3, 33100, Udine, Italy

    Cosimo Urgesi, Maria Maddalena Savonitto & Franco Fabbro

  2. Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico ‘E. Medea’, Polo Friuli Venezia Giulia, San Vito al Tagliamento, Pordenone, Italy

    Cosimo Urgesi & Franco Fabbro

  3. Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università Sapienza di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Salvatore M. Aglioti

  4. Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy

    Salvatore M. Aglioti

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Urgesi, C., Savonitto, M.M., Fabbro, F. et al. Long- and short-term plastic modeling of action prediction abilities in volleyball. Psychological Research 76, 542–560 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0383-y

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