Visual understanding of others performing an action depends on both an observer's visual and motor experience with that action. With regard to visual anticipation of lateralized action outcome in one-on-one confrontative situations, however, the particular role of motor experience is poorly understood. Here, we considered handedness to test the laterality-specific contribution of visual and motor experience to action outcome anticipation. In two experiments, 55 left- and 114 right-handed handball players predicted the outcome (Exp. 1: throw direction; Exp. 2: type of throw) of videos showing left- and right-handed penalty-throws viewed from a goalkeeper's perspective. Analyses reveal that left- and right-handed participants performed similarly and had more difficulties anticipating the outcome direction, but not type of throw, of left- compared to right-handed penalties. Thus, albeit left- and right-handers differ in their lateralized motor experience, this does not seem to be sufficient to facilitate visual anticipation of same-handed action outcome. Instead, findings lend further support to the specificity of perceptual learning and visual experience arising from both left- and right-handers' predominant exposure to more common right-handed movements.

对执行某动作的其他人的视觉理解取决于观察者对该动作的视觉和运动体验。然而，关于在一对一对抗情况下横向行动结果的视觉预期，人们对运动经验的特殊作用知之甚少。在这里，我们考虑了惯性来测试视觉和运动体验对动作结果预期的侧边特定贡献。在两个实验中，有55位左手和114位右手手球运动员预测了从守门员的角度观看左手和右手罚球的视频的结果（实验1：投掷方向；实验2：投掷类型） 。分析表明，左撇子和右撇子的参与者表现相似，并且在预测结果方向时遇到更多困难，但在投掷类型上却没有，左手罚则与右手罚则相比。因此，尽管左撇子和右撇子在侧向运动体验上有所不同，但这似乎不足以促进人们对同手行动结果的视觉预期。取而代之的是，研究结果进一步支持了因左撇子和右撇子都主要接触更常见的右撇子运动而产生的知觉学习和视觉体验的特殊性。