Jie L Clark J Game Design Guided By Visual Attention

Jie Li ¹ ² ³ ⁴

Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Institutes of Psychological Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
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, Jing Yang ⁴ ⁵

School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China

Beijing Jianhua Experimental Etown School, Beijing, China
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, Yue Qin ⁴

School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
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Yu Zhang ⁴

School of Psychology, Beijing Sport University, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
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Abstract

In the present study we investigated expert and novice football (i.e., soccer) goalkeepers' three stages of perceiving changes in open play situations—detection, localization, and identification—with and without time constraints. We adopted the continual cycling flicker paradigm to investigate goalkeepers' perceptions when provided with sufficient time (Experiment 1), and we utilized the limited display one-shot change detection paradigm to study their perceptions under time constraints (Experiment 2). Images of goalkeepers' first-person views of open play soccer scenes were used as stimuli. Semantic or non-semantic changes in these scenes were produced by modifying one element in each image. Separate groups of expert and novice goalkeepers were required to detect, localize, and identify the scene changes. We found that expert goalkeepers detected scene changes more quickly than novices under both time allowances. Furthermore, compared to novices, experts localized the changes more accurately under time constraints and identified the changes more quickly when given sufficient time. Additionally, semantic changes were detected more quickly and localized and identified more accurately than non-semantic changes when there was sufficient time. Under time constraints expert goalkeepers' greater efficiency was likely due to pre-attentive processing; with sufficient time, they were able to focus attention to extracting detailed information for identification.

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