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The Head-Fake Effect in Basketball Is Based on the Processing of Head Orientation, but Not on Gaze Direction
2020
Psychology
The head fake in basketball has been used as a paradigmatic example to investigate the cognitive mechanisms of deceptive actions in sports. When a player looks to one side while passing the ball to the opposite side, responses of the observer are slower and more error prone than when the player looks into the pass direction. It is not known if this head-fake effect is based on the processing of the action-irrelevant gaze direction or on the head orientation, or on both. Three experiments were
doi:10.4236/psych.2020.1110095
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