The development of expertise in the orienting of attention

The aim of the present paper is to analyse the relationship between the ori enting of attention and the expertise in spout. Move precisely, attention w ill be viewed as a process that can facilitate or inhibit the operations in volved in information processing subserving spout performance. If will be s hown how voluntary and automatic orienting of attention can play a role on both the sensory and motor stages of information processing, and how these different processes can be optimized through the development of participant s' expertise in a spout context.