While widely acknowledged as being important for team-sport performance, the contribution of peripheral vision is poorly understood. This study aimed to better understand the role of far peripheral vision in team sport by exploring how domain experts and novices used far peripheral vision to support decision making and action control. Expert (n = 25) and novice (n = 23) Australian football players completed a perception-only task to assess the extent of their peripheral field. Next, they completed two sport-specific variations (response and recognition) of a “no-look” pass task that required passing a ball to a teammate who appeared in their far peripheral field. In the perception-only task, novices outperformed experts. However, in the sport-specific action response and recognition tasks, experts demonstrated superior performance as they responded to the stimulus farther from central vision and more accurately. Results demonstrate expertise effects for the use of far peripheral vision in sport.

虽然人们普遍认为对团队运动表现很重要，但人们对周边视觉的贡献知之甚少。本研究旨在通过探索领域专家和新手如何使用远周边视觉来支持决策制定和行动控制，从而更好地了解远周边视觉在团队运动中的作用。专家 ( n  = 25) 和新手 ( n = 23) 澳大利亚足球运动员完成了一项仅靠感知的任务，以评估他们外围场地的范围。接下来，他们完成了一项“不看”传球任务的两个特定于运动的变体（反应和识别），该任务需要将球传给出现在他们外围区域的队友。在仅感知任务中，新手的表现优于专家。然而，在特定运动的动作反应和识别任务中，专家们表现出卓越的表现，因为他们对远离中心视觉的刺激做出更准确的反应。结果表明在运动中使用远周边视觉的专业知识效果。