Nayereh Shamshiri; Zohreh Meshkati; Rokhsareh Badami
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Introduction and Purpose: the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of sport vision training on accuracy and targeting-interceptive skill quiet eye in children with learning disorder.Methods: In this semi- experimental study with a repeated-measure design, 30 boys aged 7-10 years with learning ...
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Introduction and Purpose: the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of sport vision training on accuracy and targeting-interceptive skill quiet eye in children with learning disorder.Methods: In this semi- experimental study with a repeated-measure design, 30 boys aged 7-10 years with learning disorder were divided into sport vision and control groups. In the pre-test phase, participants performed 10 trails to throw and catch task the ball. Acquisition phase have done in eight weeks and three sessions in per weeks. At the end of the last training session, in the post-test phase, in two weeks of detraining in the retention and transfer phases, the participants performed 10 trials to throw and catch task the ball. At each phase, the gaze behavior was recorded by eye tracker system and the throw and catch task performance was recorded by the researcher. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance with repeated measures with 0.05 significant levels.Results: The results indicated that sport vision training has a significant effect on increasing the accuracy of targeting-interceptive skills and on increase quiet eye period of throw phase. But, other result indicated that sport vision training has not effect on quiet eye of catching phase.Conclusion: In general, the results of the current study emphasize the importance of sports vision training on the performance of children with learning disabilities; However, more research is needed on the effect of sports vision training on gaze behavior according to the type of task (targeting or interceptive).
Ahmad Ghotbi-Varzaneh; Mehdi Zarghami; Esmaiel Saemi; Farzad Maleki
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The present study aimed to examine throwing accuracy and spatial and digit
working memory of field dependent-independent participants. The group embedded
figure test (GEFT) was distributed among 320 male students and based on the
GEFT scores, 45 participants were randomly divided into field dependent, ...
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The present study aimed to examine throwing accuracy and spatial and digit
working memory of field dependent-independent participants. The group embedded
figure test (GEFT) was distributed among 320 male students and based on the
GEFT scores, 45 participants were randomly divided into field dependent, field
independent and control group (15 participants/each group). The study included
two tasks (dart throwing and spatial and digit working memory). In dart throwing
task, participants threw 10 darts in pre-test stage. In acquisition stage, participants
threw 60 darts in 6 blocks of 10 trials. The retention test included a block of 10
trials which was performed 24 hours after the acquisition stage. The spatial and
digit working memory test was performed individually with Cambridge brain
science software. Data were analyzed with 2-way analysis of variance with
repeated measures, one-way ANOVA test, Tukey post hoc test and Pearson
correlation coefficient. The results indicated that field independent participants
performed better in both tests of dart throwing and working memory than field
dependent participants. The findings indicated that higher scores of the GEFT task
demonstrated higher visuospatial ability (as a component of working memory) in
field independent participants which may cause a better performance in spatial
and digit working memory and dart throwing task.
