The Perception & Action Podcast - Sports Science & Psychology Talk

News: Are brain areas that produce movement involved in anticipating it? How can we reduce motion sickness? Articles: Alleviating Simulator Sickness with Galvanic Cutaneous Stimulation An action-incongruent secondary task modulates prediction accuracy in experienced performers: evidence for motor simulation   More information http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits:  JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News Jonathan Coulton - Re: Your Brains   via freemusicarchive.org

Why do great athletes claim that on some nights baseballs look as big as a grapefruit, basketball hoops are like oceans and things move in slow motion? Are they just blowing a lot of hot air or is this really the way they see the world?  In this episode, I explore embodied perception in sport…the idea that the way we see the world changes as a function of our action capabilities (e.g., whether we are an expert or novice, whether we are fresh or fatigued, etc). I also consider how we might take advantage of these effects in sports training programs. What Grinds My Gears: Publishing    Links to articles discussed: Embodied Perception and the Economy of Action Embodied perception in sport Apparent Ball Size Is Correlated With Batting Average Being selective at the plate: processing dependence between perceptual variables relates to hitting goals and performance Action-specific effects in aviation: What determines judged runway size? Target-directed visual attention is a prerequisite for action-specific perceptio

News: Can the threat of losing $50K on one putt make a pro golfer choke? Why is "back again" shorter than there?  Articles: The impact of pressure on performance: Evidence from the PGA TOUR The Return Trip Is Felt Shorter Only Postdictively: A Psychophysiological Study of the Return Trip Effect   More information http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits:  JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News via freemusicarchive.org    

How does an athlete get their glove, racquet, hand, or foot to the right place at the right time to hit, catch or strike a moving object? In this episode, I explore visual information that can be used to judge the time to contact and direction of motion of an approaching object and how it can be applied to the outfielder problem.   Research Confessions: The time I nearly published completely artifactual results   Links to articles discussed: The Black Cloud Lee’s 1976 paper Grasping tau Accuracy of estimating time to collision using binocular and monocular information Estimating the time to collision with a rotating nonspherical object The visual perception of motion in depth Catching a baseball: OAC How baseball outfielders determine where to run to catch fly balls Unconfounding the direction of motion in depth, time to passage and rotation rate of an approaching object Motion perception and driving: predicting performance through testing and shortening braking reaction times through training   IOVD Figure h

How do great athletes seem to know what is going to happen next?  What information to they use to predict the next serve will be cross court instead of down the line, how does a baseball batter know the next pitch will be a fastball, and how does an NFL quarterback know the defense will blitz? Can these abilities be improved through training? In this episode I explore the topic of anticipation in sports.  What Grinds My Gears: Conference false advertising and fishing in movement science experiments   Temporal occlusion video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8idV0V1Is8    Links to articles discussed: Anticipation in squash: differences in advance cue utilization between expert and novice players Can the anticipatory skills of experts be learned by novices? Anticipation skill in a real-world task: measurement, training, and transfer in tennis Behavior of college baseball players in a virtual batting task A model of motor inhibition for a complex skill: baseball batting Expert anticipatory skill in striking sp

What should an athlete look at when performing their sport?  For example, should a soccer goalkeeper keep their eye on the shooter’s leg when trying to stop a penalty kick or on their upper body?  Should a golfer look at the ball or the hole when putting?  Do expert athletes look at different things than novices? Is it really possible to always keep your eye on the ball? In this episode, I examine the role of eye movements in sports. Research Confessions: My first batting simulator experiment and the importance of keeping conditions in an experiment the same   Links to articles mentioned in the podcast:  Visual search, anticipation and expertise in soccer goalkeepers Anticipation and visual search behaviour in expert soccer goalkeepers Visual search strategies of baseball batters: eye movements during the preparatory phase of batting The role of central and peripheral vision in expert decision making Gaze control in putting Quiet eye duration, expertise, and task complexity in near and far aiming tasks The "q

Since the early 1980's, there have been several vision training programs developed which propose to improve the vision of athletes resulting in an associated improvement in their sports performance. Do these training programs actually work?  Or could practice time be put to better use?  In this episode, I review the research that has evaluated the effectiveness of these programs.   Links to articles mentioned in podcast: Do generalized visual training programmes for sport really work? High-performance vision training improves batting statistics for University of Cincinnati baseball players Enhancing Ice Hockey Skills Through Stroboscopic Visual Training The Impact of a Sports Vision Training Program in Youth Field Hockey Players Improved vision and on-field performance in baseball through perceptual learning The BASES Expert Statement on the Effectiveness of Vision Training Programmes   More information http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page

Sports talk is littered with phrases related to our eyes.  We talk of great court vision, a good eye at the plate  and seeing the ball well.  But just how critical is vision to an athlete?Do professional athletes see better than we do?  Can you play sports effectively if you have poorer than 20/20 vision? In this episode I dive into the topic of research in vision in sports. Links to articles mentioned in podcast: Popular Science Monthly tests Babe Ruth St. Louis Cardinals slugger Pujols gets Babe Ruth test The visual function of professional baseball players Dynamic visual acuity: a possible factor in catching performance The role of visual perception measures used in sports vision programmes Size of the Visual Field in Collegiate Fast-Pitch Softball Players and Nonathletes Motion perception and driving: predicting performance through testing and shortening braking reaction times through training Interaction of hand preference with eye dominance on accuracy in archery Is optimal vision required for the succe

A preview of the new Perception & Action Podcast. An exploration of how psychological research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition and designing new technologies in sports, driving and aviation. Hosted by Rob Gray, professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, the podcast will review basic concepts and discuss the latest research in these areas. More information: http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu Credits:    Opening music: "Shake Some Action" by The Flamin' Groovies via freemusicarchive.org  

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