In many sports, but also in everyday tasks such as driving, it is often essential to perceive several pieces of information at the same time and to make decisions under time pressure. Our team will investigate when we process information without looking at it directly. This is achieved with "peripheral perception", whose role in complex decision-making situations has hardly been investigated to date.
In the first part of the project, we will manipulate real football situations in virtual reality in such a way that we can examine the role of peripheral perception based on decision-making and gaze behavior. These results will be used in the second part to develop peripheral perception training for sports practice. The third part will examine whether the findings can also be transferred to car drivers and whether they can perceive other road users better and faster with certain perception strategies.
