1. Left-handed athletes have been shown to have an advantage in interactive sports such as tennis, with left-handers making up a disproportionately high percentage of top players.
2. One theory for this advantage is the "negative perceptual frequency effects" hypothesis, which suggests that right-handed athletes are less practiced at perceiving and predicting movements from left-handed opponents.
3. A study tested this by having right and left-handed participants with different levels of tennis experience try to predict the direction and depth of tennis shots from video clips of both right and left-handed players. It found support for the idea that the ability to perceive left-handed movements is less developed.
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The Advantage Of Being Left Handed In Interactive Sports
1. The advantage of being left-handedIn interactive sportsNorbert,H. (2009)Attention, Perception, & Psycholophysics, 71(7), 1641-1648.
5. Perception of Human Movements:1.Focus of orientation in the perception of humanmovements.( Pollick, Lestou, Ryu, & Cho, 2002)2. Side-specific perception of human movements in sport.( McMorris and Colenso 1996)
7. Earlier Explanations:1.Innate superiority hypothesis:Left-handerspossess a neuropsychological advantage.2.Strategic advantage hypothesis. They have a strategic or tactical advantage .
8. Perception of Human Movements:1.Focus of orientation in the perception of humanmovements.( Pollick, Lestou, Ryu, & Cho, 2002)2. Side-specific perception of human movements in sport.( McMorris and Colenso 1996)
9. Perception of Human Movements1.Focus of orientation in the perception of humanmovements. -These studies assume that this sensitivity in distinguishing between different human movements depends on visual experience.
10. Perception of Human Movements2. Side-specific perception of human movements in sport. - This strong dependence on both visual experience and the horizontal orientation, it is proposed the sport-type-specific ability with the left hand is less well developed.
11. Perception of Human MovementsNegative perceptual frequencyeffects hypothesis. -The lower frequency with which athletes in interactive sports are confronted with movements by left-handed opponents.
12. MethodParticipants: -108 males, 54 right-handers (RH) and 54 left-handers selected with the German version of the EHI . -Divided into three groups by experience. (experts,intermediates,novices)
13. MethodTest Procedure -The participants viewed videotaped sequences of tennis strokes on a laptop computer and had to predict the direction and depth of each stroke.
14. videotaped sequencesTwo left-handed and two right-handed.Twelve strokes (six groundstrokes, four volleys, and two serves) were recorded from each player.紗貧R符格FTotal 96video clips.鞭宀豢白議鯛c恂Ay壅參radial error 麻`餓。
24. DiscussionDo the Movement Patterns of left-Handers Simply Mirror the Movements of Right-Handers?There should also be no interaction between the playing hand in video and initial handedness of player in video variables.
25. DiscussionNegative perceptual frequency effect (see Faurie & Ray-mond, 2005) and can be assigned to the set of strategic advantages of left-handers in sport.