Cue weighting and basketball pass decisions under breathing-induced high and low psychophysiological activation

作者：Laura Voigt, Touliv Hirschmann, Florian Loffing, Maša Iskra, Markus Raab, Sylvain Laborde, Lisa Koop · 发表于：Open Science Framework · 年份：2026 · DOI：10.17605/osf.io/4953m · 研究领域：Psychology、Cognitive psychology、Social psychology、Artificial intelligence

In basketball, players are required to make decisions while considering numerous cues and to execute the relevant actions with high precision. Prominent perceptual cues include the defensive coverage, positioning of their teammates, and the distance to the basket (Davids et al., 2013). Psychophysiological activation level is known to influence motor-cognitive processes during decision making (e.g., Du et al., 2024), but the exact form of these influences is still not fully understood. The theory of arousal biased competition (ABC) proposes that arousal enhances processing of goal-relevant information, while reducing processing of goal-irrelevant information (Mather & Sutherland, 2011). Thereby, high activation may facilitate performance by biasing the attentional focus to the most relevant cues. Research has shown that high activation additionally influences how the cues are used in decision processes, leading to higher prevalence of heuristic, non-compensatory decision strategies (Wichary et al., 2016). Non-compensatory decision strategies describe the process of selectively focusing on the most important cues, while ignoring less important ones (Schevchenko & Bröder, 2018). An example of such a strategy is “Take-the-best”, in which an individual searches through cues in order of their weightings, and chooses an option as soon as a cue discriminates among alternatives. In contrast, compensatory decision strategies, such as the equal weight and weighted additive strategies, a...