The Head Tracks and Gaze Predicts: How the World’s Best Batters Hit a Ball

Hitters in fast ball-sports do not align their gaze with the ball throughout ball-flight; rather, they use predictive eye movement strategies that contribute towards their level of interceptive skill. Existing studies claim that (i) baseball and cricket batters cannot track the ball because it moves...

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Published in:PloS one 2013-03, Vol.8 (3), p.e58289
Main Authors: Mann, David L., Spratford, Wayne, Abernethy, Bruce
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Baseball
Biology
Cricket
Cricket (Sport)
Experimental psychology
Eye
Eye Movements
Head
Head movement
Head Movements
Human performance
Humans
Medicine
Neurosciences
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
Saccades - physiology
Science
Skills
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sports
Studies
Tennis
Visual Perception
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