HORIZON 2020 - The cognitive art of team sports

While on court, beach volleyball players need to act as a whole in order to prevent the ball from touching the sand: in a fraction of a second - just before the opponent's hand spikes the ball - the passer has to predict and adjust to the attacker's action as well as to their teammate's block position.

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Health Innovation Funding Researchers European Research Council Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing Hungary

date: 02/08/2016

Project: Joint action expertise: Behavioral, cogn...

acronym: JAXPERTISE

See also: CORDIS

Thanks to her EU funding, cognitive science professor Natalie Sebanz is studying the cognitive and psychological mechanisms underlying joint action expertise - in other words, how individuals learn skilled actions, such as those performed by professional athletes, together.

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