TY - JOUR ID - 16933 TI - The Influence of Visual Context on the Emergence of the Especial Skill of Free Throw in Basketball among Experienced and Low Experienced Players JO - Journal of Research in Rehabilitation Sciences JA - JRRS LA - en SN - 1735-7519 AU - Kavyani, Akram AU - Abdoli, Behrouz AU - Farsi, Alireza AD - PhD Student, Department of Motor Behavior, School of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Department of Motor Behavior, School of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 11 IS - 6 SP - 393 EP - 400 KW - Practice specificity KW - Generality KW - Visual information KW - Experienced performance DO - 10.22122/jrrs.v11i6.2546 N2 - Introduction: When, as a result of a great amount of practice, a skill is performed significantly better than similar skills within the same class, it is called an especial skill. The goal of this study was the examination of the influence of visual context on the emergence of the especial skill of free throws in basketball among experienced and low experienced players.Materials and Methods: In the present study, 10 experienced and 10 low experienced basketball players took 150 shots from 5 different distances from the basket including the free throw line. The players took their shots in 3 different visual contextual conditions (light, one point lighting, and dark). The linear regression, one-sample t-test, and the curve linear regression were used to analyze the data.Results: The results of the linear regression analysis of the data of the 4 distances showed a significant negative relation between distance and performance accuracy in the experienced group (P < 0.05, r = -0.68). In addition, the result of dependent t-test showed that the experienced group only illustrated a superior performance from the free throw line when the visual context was light and one point lighting (P < 0.05), but their performance was not superior when the visual context was dark. In low experienced players, a negative linear relationship was observed between the different distances and their performance scores (P < 0.05, r = -0.41). Moreover, the results showed that the curve linear regression analysis fit the data of the experienced group better (P < 0.05, r = -0.70).Conclusion: These findings showed the role of visual information in the emergence of the especial skill effect in experienced individuals.  UR - https://jrrs.mui.ac.ir/article_16933.html L1 - https://jrrs.mui.ac.ir/article_16933_32f4f7e8126b1e8a3a3a3e81c5ae6b75.pdf ER -