The Perception & Action Podcast - Sports Science & Psychology Talk

How does a driver know when to start braking and whether they are braking hard enough to avoid a collision? Where do we look when we steer around a curve?  Do race car drivers look somewhere different? Why is it so hard to hit (and throw!) a knuckleball? (Time: 18:36)   Links to articles discussed: A theory of visual control of braking based on information about time-to-collision Time-to-contact judgment in the locomotion of adults and preschool children Visual control of braking: a test of the tau hypothesis Affordance-Based Control of Visually Guided Action A two-point visual control model of steering Where we look when we steer Which parts of the road guide steering? Using vision to control locomotion: looking where you want to go Expert Baseball Batters Have Greater Sensitivity in Making Swing Decisions   Knuckleball graph link: http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/6/10/1511336/why-is-it-so-hard-to-hit-the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36E46a1bG70   More information: http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libs