摘要：Research on the Quiet Eye (QE) has progressed brightly over the past years. Fixating on a task-relevant location before movement onset has been identified as a significant correlate of expert performance in many sport domains. In this commentary, we propose that visual expertise, including the QE, is socially mediated. Studying social mediation opens the opportunity to conceptualize expertise as a relational phenomenon that is accomplished through interactions with other people and with changing environmental affordances. Drawing on examples from basketball, soccer, and golf, we elaborate on this situational interpretation and propose that visual expertise in sports is contingent on the social dynamics of the game; is reflexively aligned to the social group; and changes as the social context changes. Future QE research can extend units of analysis to study how trajectories of expertise are socially mediated and unfold over time.
