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"Behavioral Analysis of Sports" (ADICODE) at Universidad de Extremadura
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October 2010 - present
October 2008 - October 2014
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The study analyzed the gaze behavior and decision-making performance of 20 soccer assistant referees while judging offside events. Specifically, gaze behaviors, gaze entropy, and estimated quiet eye (eQE; defined as the last fixation prior to the attacker’s ball pass) characteristics (i.e., location, onset, offset, and duration) were analyzed in re...
The impact that tourists have on the destination community modifies their behavior and can be a key factor guiding both their perceptions and their intention to revisit the destination. However, the perceptions of tourists have been little analyzed in the scientific literature. The objective of this study is to explore the psychometric properties a...
This study novelty aimed to investigate the influence of manipulating the available time to perform the training tasks on soccer players´ ocular metrics, following training. Specifically, pupillary response (pupil diameter) and saccadic features (latency, accuracy, velocity and number) were measured with a portable eye tracker following training to...
Introduction: The aim of the study is to address embodied planning in climbing. Embodied planning was conceptualized as the interaction between perceptual-cognitive pre-planning and motor execution.
Methods: In an experimental study, 18 climbers were asked to pre-plan a climbing route and to perform the route afterward. During pre-planning, the vi...
Introduction:
Visual attention is a cognitive skill related to visual perception and neural activity, and also moderated by expertise, in time-constrained professional domains (e.g., aviation, driving, sport, surgery). However, the contribution of both perceptual and neural processes on performance has been studied separately in the literature.
De...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global health problem with different negative consequences for women’s mental health. This pilot study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a multicomponent intervention for battered women using a comparison group design to analyze improvement in self-esteem, self-concept, self-efficacy, body dissatisfaction, and de...
The aim of the study was to address the influence of past and current motor experiences as soccer players in a sample of amateur soccer referees when judging ambiguous foul situations occurring in real soccer matches. A case design was used to evaluate the contribution of these motor experiences as soccer players on the accuracy of referees’ decisi...
Background:
Kinesiophobia is defined as fear of movement due to the painful experience of it. The main symptom of fibromyalgia is persistent and widespread pain associated with other symptoms. This study analyzes the kinesiophobia between women with fibromyalgia and apparently healthy women and investigates the relationship between kinesiophobia a...
Sports tourism is a decisive factor in geographical mobility for leisure purposes. These activities entail certain acts and consequences inherent in their execution, which are worthy of study from the perspective of sustainable and reasonable tourism. Previous studies tried to show the characteristics of this type of tourist but did not provide rel...
Blood Pressure (BP) is one of the most used measured clinical parameters in health promotion and intervention. BP measures can vary due to different parameters, so we aim to study the intrasession test–retest reliability for an oscillometric method using a digital tensiometer in the Peruvian population aged over 15 with and without a diagnosis of h...
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by the selective destruction of the beta cells of the pancreas causing an absolute deficiency of insulin for life. This pathology carries associated risks so that it is essential to measure Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in this population. The aim was to analyse a...
Abstract: Route previewing has been established as a critical parameter in indoor climbing
performance, as it could determine the success or failure in ascending the route. We addressed the effect of different types of previews on output climbing performance. Twenty-one advanced climbers (7b and 7c+ climbing grade) were required to complete 18 rou...
Early childhood education aims to achieve the motor, cognitive, emotional, and social development of preschoolers by providing them with a variety of learning opportunities. The square-stepping exercise (SSE) is a balance and lower limb strength training programme used to prevent falls and stimulate cognitive function in older adults. This project...
Introduction:
Fibromyalgia (FM) translates into a reduction in the quality of life of people who suffer from it, being a chronic disease of unknown etiology. One of the most widespread treatments includes the combination of patient education, along with other components. At the educational level, the Fibromyalgia Knowledge Questionnaire (FKQ) is a...
Introduction: Fibromyalgia (FM) affects 2.40% of the Spanish population. The most widespread treatment has been the combination of patient education, pain coping strategies and exercise. With regard to patient education, there are few previous studies on the efficacy of relating FM education in isolation with an improvement in FM, although there ar...
Las intervenciones asistidas con animales (IAA), en sus diferentes formas, han mostrado beneficios en las personas a diferentes niveles. En España, profesionales de diferentes ámbitos llevan a cabo este tipo de intervenciones, destacando la ausencia de profesionales de las ciencias del deporte (CAFYD). Este artículo tiene como objetivo valorar la p...
In this study we assessed the contribution of augmented probabilistic information on the motor behavior of novice defenders during 1 vs. 1 basketball play. More specifically, we aimed to investigate the influence of different probabilities of attacks to the basket (Level 1: High-probability of a single attack action; Level 2: Equal probability of t...
The aim of the present study was to describe and compare the motor patternsof climbers with different skilllevelswhen usingthe dyno technique. The sample of participants was10 climbers, 5 highskillclimbers and 5 low skillclimbers. Kinematic variables of position, velocity and acceleration of different body segments were measured. A 23-point anatomi...
The aim of the study was to assess the effects of manipulating video speeds on visual behavior and decision accuracy of 10 amateur football assistant referees (ARs) when perceived video sequences of 24 possible offside actions on a large screen. An eye tracker was used to analyze participants’ visual behaviors. Signal detection analysis provided fu...
El objetivo del trabajo fue conocer si la habilidad para recordar patrones de juego en balonmano estuvo influida por el tiempo en el que dichas acciones de juego fueron percibidas por los jugadores. La muestra de participantes estuvo formada por un total de 7 jugadores federados de balonmano, categoría infantil. Los participantes tenían que observa...
The study examined effects of spatial stimulus–response compatibility on response time and response accuracy in 20 novice combat sport athletes. Two equivalent groups, based on initial reaction time measures, were required to perceive and move quickly and accurately in response to an unspecific visual stimulus presented on a large screen during two...
The region of Extremadura, as other zones in Spain, has carried out different plans for the development of natural areas in the last decades, such as the protection of natural spaces. These programs have had some impact on society, but they have not prevented the gradual depopulation of the rural territory. This problem is bigger if we add the redu...
The aim of the study was to build a low-cost mask-type eye tracker with accuracy and precision levels similar to those reported for commercial eye tracking devices. To this end, head-mounted hardware was designed and developed, while open-source software was modified for digital image capture, manipulation, and fixation analysis. An image recogniti...
In this study we assessed the influence of previous embodied refereeing experience on perceptual strategies used for judging offside events in football. For this purpose, 11 assistant referees and 11 players watched a video-projected image of 24 offside sequences on a screen (5 × 3 m) in a laboratory. All participants, who were experienced in footb...
El objetivo del estudio fue analizar la calidad emitida del servicio
de actividades físicas en la naturaleza por parte de trabajadores
de empresas extremeñas de turismo activo. Complementariamente,
se analizó si la calidad percibida de dicho servicio estaba influida
por el rol del trabajador, gerente o monitor deportivo, dentro
de la empresa. La mu...
The purpose of this study was to study the quality of the physical activity services in nature offered by workers of active tourism companies in Extremadura. In a complementary fashion, we also analysed whether the perceived quality of this service was influenced by the role of the worker within the company, either manager or sports monitor. The sa...
This study examines the 8 football referees´ visual behavior during the perception of offside actions carried out in a laboratory setting. The task consists on perceiving a rally of 24 trials onto a screen (5x3m) with reduced play situations and that could conclude with an offside action. Participants perceive the sequence with the ASL Eye Tracking...
El objetivo del trabajo fue describir y comparar las características físicas y antropométricas de 25 gimnastas pertenecientes al grupo de tecnificación de la Federación Extremeña de Gimnasia. Estas gimnastas fueron clasificadas según modalidad gimnástica: artística femenina (GAF) (n=13) y gimnasia rítmica (GR) (n=12). Las variables dependientes inc...
El estudio analiza el comportamiento visual de 8 arbitros de futbol durante la percepcion del fuera de juego en laboratorio. La tarea consiste en percibir una secuencia de 24 ensayos en una pantalla (5x3m), donde se proyectan situaciones reducidas de juego y que concluyen con una posible accion de fuera de juego. Los participantes deben percibir la...
The aim of this study was to design and validate an observational
instrument to assess the technical execution in top-rope climbing. This observational instrument allows
researchers to assess the progression of climbers in relation to the achievement of key aspects of climbing
movements. Firstly, a review of the specialized literature was performed...
The aim of this study was to design and validate an observational instrument to assess the technical execution in top-rope climbing. This observational instrument allows researchers to assess the progression of climbers in relation to the achievement of key aspects of climbing movements. Firstly, a review of the specialized literature was performed...
Currently, direct empirical evidence exists about the amount of mechanical load that climbers apply to each finger during several hand grips specific to sport climbing, but not yet in a specific hanging position.
The objectives of this study are a) to draw and build a solid and rigid support that simulates the real action of a hand grip
in a hangin...
En los últimos años es patente el cambio de
tendencia en el turismo que se ha desarrollado en el
territorio nacional español y la incidencia que están
teniendo en el desarrollo de diversas actividades
deportivas en el medio natural. Esta situación de
forma evidente está generando cambio social
(preferentemente en los períodos vacacionales) y por
ta...
Leyton M, Luis-del-Campo V, Morenas J, Roldán A. Assessment of the level of muscular strength and volume in physically active English adults. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 296-309, 2012. The aim of this study is to describe the muscular volume and strength of different body segments from a sample of 19 English male participants, with a me...
The aim of this study is to describe the muscular volume and strength of different body segments from a sample of 19 English male participants, with a mean age of 43.84 (±11.62). An isometric dynamometer (Standard type S) has been used for the strength measurements, as well as an isokinetic device (Cibex Norm, Ronkonkama, New York, U.S.A.) and a M....
The aim of our research was to describe the physical and anthropometric characteristics of 25 gymnasts from the talent identification
program of the Extremeña Gymnastics Federation. Subjects were classified according to their specialty: women‘s artistic gymnastic (WAG) and
rhythmic gymnastics (RG). The dependent variables include body fat percentag...
Resumen En la Gimnasia Artística, el rendimiento viene determinado por la ejecución de una serie de movimientos con base en un modelo establecido y recogido en el Código de Puntuación. Con base en esto, el objetivo de nuestro trabajo es determinar si el número y nivel de dificultades que componen el total de diagonales realizadas en un ejercicio de...
In Artistic Gymnastics, the performance is determined by the execution of a series of movements based on a model established and gathered in the Code of Punctuation. Therefore, the aim of this research is to study if the number and level of difficulty composing all diagonals executed in floor exercise predicts and influences in a positive way the f...
