TY  - JOUR
AB  - Even NBA players fall for pump fakes in approximately 73% of the time and initiate erroneous blocking movements. To investigate the spatio-temporal and dynamic con- straints of inhibition performance in basketball, the basketball-specific anticipation- response inhibition (ARI) task was applied in a quasi-realistic scenario. To this end, a video of a basketball jump shot was presented and participants were instructed to jump up and press a buzzer at the ceiling to “block” the shot (go-trials). In 25% of all trials, a simulation of a pump fake was presented, and participants should withhold their response (stop-trials). To measure response inhibition ability, the point of no return (PNR, signifying a response-inhibition rate of 50%) was calculated. The PNR was located 462 ms before the point of ball release. The response-precision perfor- mance improved from the first half of the experiment (Blocks 1–3) to the second half of the experiment (Blocks 4–6), indicating effects of short-term practice. In addition, participants shifted their priority in favor of inhibition after a preceding stop-trial, which is reminiscent of strategic adaptations. Selective biomechanical parameters, measured by a force plate, revealed that response initiation becomes more likely the closer the progression of the execution of the deceptive action moves towards the PNR. Once a response is initiated, it can only be aborted in the early phase of move- ment execution before the PNR is reached. As a consequence, participants delayed their response in a go-trial, used less force, and slowed down their movements to increase the probability to successfully inhibit the defensive action.
AU  - Wickemeyer, Carolin
AU  - Güldenpenning, Iris
AU  - Weigelt, Matthias
DO  - 10.17619/UNIPB/1-2455
PB  - Universitätsbibliothek
DP  - Universität Paderborn
LA  - eng
PY  - 2025
SN  - 1932-6203
SP  - 1 Online-Ressource (Seite 1-18) : Illustrationen, Diagramme
T2  - PLOS One
TI  - The limits of action control for deceptive actions in sports: Response inhibition for the basketball pump fake
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:466:2-56777
Y2  - 2026-01-14T16:45:25
ER  -