Central-peripheral awareness is the ability of a subject to maintain central fixation on a target, yet be aware of what is happening around him or her. This is a function of visual perception and relates the athlete\u2019s ability to receive and to respond to peripheral stimuli while mantaining central attention. Peripheral retina is especially sensitive to displacements, being movement detection its most characteristic function. It is also deeply involved in catching, hitting and collision avoidance and contributes to visuomotor coordination, posture and spatial motion.\u00a0 Information in the periphery of the visual field frequently influences performance decisions in competitive sport and may be crucial to overall performance in certain sport activities. Different studies have shown that fields of vision are larger in athletes involved in team sports, as well as some research evidenced that systematic training and improvement of peripheral awareness can increase sporting performance. We end the paper with the description of different exercises to enhance athlete\u2019s peripheral vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Central-peripheral awareness is the ability of a subject to maintain central fixation on a target, yet be aware of what is happening around him or her. This is a function of visual perception and relates the athlete\u2019s ability to receive and to respond to peripheral stimuli while mantaining central attention. Peripheral retina is especially sensitive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8510],"tags":[6742,6722,6737],"author_meta":{"display_name":"doc_inefc","author_link":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/author\/doc_inefc\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Apunts for the XXI Century<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Apunts for the XXI Century<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Peripheral Vision<\/a>","Sports Vision<\/a>","Visual Training<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Peripheral Vision<\/span>","Sports Vision<\/span>","Visual Training<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 19 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 1 April 2007","modified":"Updated on 15 January 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 1 April 2007 11:46","modified":"Updated on 15 January 2021 11:05"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40888,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/40888\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revista-apunts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}