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The Perception & Action Podcast

25B - Sport Science Shorts: Why Can’t We Perceive Acceleration & Does it Matter?

Apr 18, 2016
07:57

How can we be so good at hitting and catching accelerating objects when we can’t really judge acceleration? Do we use anticipation or just correct errors based on feedback?

Articles:

How Can People Be so Good at Intercepting Accelerating Objects if They Are so Poor at Visually Judging Acceleration?

Visual timing in hitting an accelerating ball.

Identifying the acceleration of visual targets.

Visual information about moving objects.

 

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

 

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Stems – Slow Me Down

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

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