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Critical Time Intervals for Taking in Flight Information in a Ball-Catching Task
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In this article, a ball-catching task in which the ball was caused to enter on a parabolic flight path by means of a mechanical apparatus was administered to 36 male students between the ages of 18 and 40 years.Abstract:
A ball-catching task in which the ball was caused to enter on a parabolic flight path by means of a mechanical apparatus was administered to 36 male students between the ages of 18 and 40 years. An electronic device enabled the ball to be illuminated for predetermined temporal intervals during its flight. Results indicated that in this relatively unpredictable task opportunity to watch the ball for longer periods of time resulted in increased catching success. Results are discussed in relation to previous experimental work in which the ball was on a more predictable trajectory (since output information was available) and are related to the perceptual moment hypothesis.read more
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Phasing and the Pickup of Optical Information in Cascade Juggling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between the phasing of hand movements and the pickup of optical information in cascade juggling and found that a preference for seeing the segment of the ball flight following the zenith in one subject; such a preference was hinted at in the other two subjects.
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Isn't there a catch in it somewhere?
TL;DR: The relationship between skill, vision, and proprioception in simple one-handed catching has recently been researched and the parts of their work addressed to the necessity of being able to see the hand for optimal performance are critically evaluated.
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I Lost It in the Lights: The Effects of Predictable and Variable Intermittent Vision on Unimanual Catching
TL;DR: Results indicated that, although performance was best with shorter between- sample intervals, the temporal predictability of samples did not reliably affect catching performance, which suggests that between-sample retinal expansion provides sufficient information for the timing of the interceptive act.
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“Catch” Questions and Incomplete Answers
TL;DR: In this article, a series of experiments addressed to the task of one-handed catching are discussed in their historical perspective and the inadequacy of some of the solutions proposed to theoretical questions raised by experimentors are signalled.
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Eye Movements and the Selection of Optical Information for Catching
TL;DR: In this paper, the direction of gaze during a single-ball throwing and catching task was analyzed to generate hypotheses regarding the optical information that participants used, and the implications of these results for the gaze information for catching and expertise in a perceptual-motor task are discussed.
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