(Department of Physical Education,Hunan City University,Yiyang 413000,China) Abstract: In order to understand the differences in the inhibition of return capacity between basketball players and ordinary people, the authors compared the inhibition of return capacities of 16 basketball players and 16 ordinary college students under the conditions of adjacent and spaced clueing positions by experiment and by means of si-multaneous clueing, and revealed the following finding: under the conditions of simultaneous clueing, the inhibition of return capacities of the basketball players and ordinary college students were 5 and 3 respectively when the clue-ing positions were adjacent, or 3 and 1 respectively when the clueing positions were spaced. The finding indicates that under the conditions of simultaneous clueing, no matter that the clueing positions are adjacent or spaced, the in-hibition or return capacity of the basketball players is greater than that of ordinary people, and the inhibition effect of basketball player is more obvious and intense. Basketball players can produce a more powerful inhibition of re-turn effect at more clueing positions, quickly shift the resources of attention to new positions, and show a highly ef-ficient space searching ability. Key words: sports psychology;selective attention;inhibition of return capacity;simultaneous cueing;basketball player |