The purpose of this study was to identify which cognitive and perceptual skills best discriminate elite female handball players according the age group they belong to. sample consisted 73 Portuguese national teams’ players, aged between 11 29 years, with an average 7.5 (± 3.7) years practice. following tests were applied: Thurstone Identical Figures Test, Toulouse-Piéron Concentrated Attention ...

Performing musicians invest thousands of hours becoming experts in a range of perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills. The duration and intensity of musicians' training - far greater than that of most educational or rehabilitation programs - provides a useful model to test the extent to which skills acquired in one particular context (music) generalize to different domains. Here, we asked...

Performing musicians invest thousands of hours becoming experts in a range of perceptual, attentional, and cognitive skills. The duration and intensity of musicians’ training – far greater than that of most educational or rehabilitation programs – provides a useful model to test the extent to which skills acquired in one particular context (music) generalize to different domains. Here, we asked...

feature extraction is a main step in all perceptual image hashing schemes in which robust features will led to better results in perceptual robustness. simplicity, discriminative power, computational efficiency and robustness to illumination changes are counted as distinguished properties of local binary pattern features. in this paper, we investigate the use of local binary patterns for percep...

What does perceptual experience contribute to Wgure-ground segregation? To study this question, we trained observers to search for symmetric dot patterns embedded in random dot backgrounds. Training improved shape segmentation, but learning did not completely transfer either to untrained locations or to untrained shapes. Such partial speciWcity persisted for a month after training. Interestingl...

This study aimed to: i) compare the number of decisions made in official matches between youth academy and professional soccer players ii) quality speed decision-making players. In experiment 1 we assessed 12 (7 5 matches) through notational analysis. 2 138 from (n = 42) 96) levels. The TacticUP® was used to assess game reading skills. Results indicated that make around 56% more than their resp...

What does perceptual experience contribute to figure-ground segregation? To study this question, we trained observers to search for symmetric dot patterns embedded in random dot backgrounds. Training improved shape segmentation, but learning did not completely transfer either to untrained locations or to untrained shapes. Such partial specificity persisted for a month after training. Interestin...

Age, along with sex and ethnicity serve as primary perceptual bases on which people categorise one another and thus age serves as perceptual indicator of abilities, competence, skills, experience and even health status. Age-based discrimination arises in relation to specific age points, particular age ranges, and also in terms of general category labels such as ‘young’ or ‘old’. Ageism permeate...