The effect of sports expertise on the performance of orienteering athletes' reality-scene image recognition and visual search characteristics

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To explore the sports expertise of directional athletes' real scene picture recognition performance and visual search characteristics, this study selected 40 different level directional athletes (panel, novice group) for the subjects, the eye movement experiment paradigm, placed observation points in the real scene, picture recognition task test, examine the directional athletes picture recognition behavior performance and visual search characteristics. The results show that the expert group shows high accuracy and short response time; it has the visual search characteristics of less saccade frequency, low saccade frequency and low fixation frequency, concentrated fixation points, simple and clear fixation path, and higher visual search efficiency. It reveals that long-term special training will form the specialty cognitive structure related to the special knowledge in the long-term memory of the expert athletes, which promotes the formation of the expert advantage. Biological sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive neuroscience/Attention Biological sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive neuroscience/Consciousness Biological sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive neuroscience/Problem solving Biological sciences/Psychology/Human behaviour orienteering Visual search Image recognition Athletic expertise Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 14 Sep, 2024 Read the published version in Scientific Reports → Version 1 posted Editorial decision: Revision requested 24 Jun, 2024 Reviews received at journal 19 Jun, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 18 Jun, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 10 Apr, 2024 Reviews received at journal 09 Mar, 2024 Reviewers agreed at journal 06 Mar, 2024 Reviewers invited by journal 18 Feb, 2024 Editor assigned by journal 18 Feb, 2024 Editor invited by journal 08 Feb, 2024 Submission checks completed at journal 08 Feb, 2024 First submitted to journal 30 Jan, 2024 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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