The ecological dynamics of cognizant action in sport

IF 3.3 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102935

Duarte Araújo , Henrique Lopes , David Farrokh , Keith Davids

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Abstract

The widespread inferential understanding of human action attributes to the brain the power of modelling actions and predicting immediate changes in environmental circumstances. However, an ecological rationale proposes that sport performance is founded on coupled perception and action, avoiding the need for the brain, as a mediator, to be lagging behind immediate corporeal contact with the sport environment. Here, a theory of cognizant action is presented where behaviour is understood in terms of self-organized action, shaped by a performer's complex skills, directed towards perceived affordances. Cognizant action is defined as the conservation of intentionality by coupled perception and action. Being oriented towards action possibilities (affordances), cognizant action self-organizes in every performance environment, and at the same time it is constrained by performers' skills. Accordingly, the study of cognizant action demands representative experimental designs and analysis of eco-physical variables to understand sport performance. Current debates include the role of knowledge, the symmetry between performer and environment, and team cognition. Future research might be directed to test tensegrity as well as ‘strong’ anticipation in individual and team sport tasks.

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运动中认知行为的生态动力学

对人类行为的广泛推断性理解将模拟行为和预测环境即时变化的能力归功于大脑。然而，一种生态学理论认为，运动表现是建立在感知和行动的耦合基础上的，避免了大脑作为一个中介，落后于与运动环境的直接身体接触。在这里，提出了一种认知行动理论，其中行为被理解为自组织行动，由表演者的复杂技能塑造，直接指向感知的启示。认知行为被定义为通过感知和行动相结合来保持意向性。认知行为以行动可能性（可视性）为导向，在每一个表演环境中都是自组织的，同时又受到表演者技能的约束。因此，认知行为的研究需要有代表性的实验设计和生态物理变量的分析来理解运动表现。当前的争论包括知识的作用、执行者和环境之间的对称性以及团队认知。未来的研究可能会针对个人和团队运动任务中的张拉完整性以及“强烈”预期进行测试。

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

172

审稿时长

69 days

期刊介绍： Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication will present results from high quality empirical research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, commentaries concerning already published PSE papers or topics of general interest for PSE readers, protocol papers for trials, and reports of professional practice (which will need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description). The CONSORT guidelines consort-statement need to be followed for protocol papers for trials; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the CONSORT checklist. For meta-analysis, the PRISMA prisma-statement guidelines should be followed; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the PRISMA checklist. For systematic reviews it is recommended that the PRISMA guidelines are followed, although it is not compulsory. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.