Interpersonal coordination in a basketball-related task.

Meerhoff, L.R.A. (Rens) (2011) Interpersonal coordination in a basketball-related task. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.

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Abstract

For an athlete, expert performance comprises individual parameters such as speed or agility. For interactive sports, however, a high level of expertise also involves certain 'interactive abilities'. In the present experiment, we therefore examined interpersonal coordination in a basketball-related task, based on expectations derived from a model of bimanual coordination dynamics. Two basketball players had to move sideward in oscillatory fashion in in-phase relation with each other, while at a cue they had to switch to an anti-phase pattern. We assessed how these switches were mediated by phase adaptations of each athlete under bidirectional (i.e., the pair facing each other) and unidirectional (i.e., one facing the back of the other) interaction conditions. In line with our expectations the results of this analysis confirmed the imposed coupling asymmetry in the unidirectional setting. It was, however, not possible to relate this asymmetry to the stability of the coordination, contrary to our theoretically motivated expectations. In sum, interpersonal coordination can be analyzed in terms of relative phase dynamics, similar as with bimanual coordination. The present results show that, since there are two acting individual components in interpersonal coordination, the behavior of the components can vary as a result of a change of intrinsic individual characteristics. This study offered a first step towards analyzing interpersonal coordination dynamics in relation to individual interaction paramters.

Item Type:	Thesis (Thesis)
Supervisor name:	de Poel, Dr. Harjo J.
Faculty:	Medical Sciences
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2020 10:58
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2020 10:58
URI:	https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1874

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