Tracking of moving players in soccer: Multiple object tracking in real-life environment

Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been extensively studied in the laboratory. However, the relevance of this task to performance in the real-life environments is unknown. Here we examine whether the performance in laboratory tasks of MOT with identical objects (Pylyshyn they were able to track more player information than novices. However, no expert – novice –differences were found in the MOT tasks. These results suggest that the cognitive ability needed in the MIT tasks resembles closely abilities needed in the real-life tracking tasks but such resemblance was not found with MOT. The results are consistent with our previous findings that MIT and MOT are performed by separate systems in terms of eye-movements and brain activity (Oksama Nummenmaa, Oksama, Glerean, & Hyönä, 2017). Meeting abstract presented at VSS 2018