Performance and human factors: Considerations about cognition and attention for self-paced and externally-paced events

RN Singer - Ergonomics, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The cognitive psychology school of thought has spawned models of sequential stages or
phases of information processing associated with various tasks. It has encouraged the study …

Visual factors in hitting and catching

D Regan - Journal of sports sciences, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
To hit or catch an approaching ball, it is necessary to move a bat or hand to the right place at
the right time. The performance of top sports players is remarkable: positional errors of less …

Attending to the execution of a complex sensorimotor skill: expertise differences, choking, and slumps.

R Gray - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
A simulated baseball batting task was used to compare the relative effects of attending to
extraneous information (tone frequency) and attending to skill execution (direction of bat …

[BOOK][B] Looking and acting: vision and eye movements in natural behaviour

M Land, B Tatler - 2009 - books.google.com
The cooperative action of different regions of our brains gives us an amazing capacity to
perform activities as diverse as playing the piano and hitting a tennis ball. Somehow, without …

[BOOK][B] Physics of the human body

IP Herman - 2016 - books.google.com
This book comprehensively addresses the physics and engineering aspects of human
physiology by using and building on first-year college physics and mathematics. Topics …

[BOOK][B] Qualitative diagnosis of human movement: improving performance in sport and exercise

DV Knudson - 2013 - books.google.com
For kinesiology professionals, qualitative movement diagnosis (QMD) is a critical skill in
hel** individuals improve performance or reduce the risk of injury. Qualitative Diagnosis of …

How baseball outfielders determine where to run to catch fly balls

MK McBeath, DM Shaffer, MK Kaiser - Science, 1995 - science.org
Current theory proposes that baseball outfielders catch fly balls by selecting a running path
to achieve optical acceleration cancellation of the ball. Yet people appear to lack the ability …

[BOOK][B] Numerical methods for physics

AL Garcia - 2000 - algarcia.org
1.2. Х1 Consider the function r (θ)= 1 e2 1 e cos (θ) a) Plot r versus θ from θ= 0to2π for e= 0,
0. 1, 0. 5, 0. 9.[Computer] b) Plot this function in x, у coordinates taking r as the radial …

Effects of focus of attention on baseball batting performance in players of differing skill levels

B Castaneda, R Gray - Journal of Sport and Exercise …, 2007 - journals.humankinetics.com
This study addressed the question, what should baseball players focus their attention on
while batting? Less-skilled and highly skilled (college) baseball players participated in four …

The impact of vision and vision training on sport performance

D Knudson, DA Kluka - … of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
A: thOUgh physical education teachers and coaches are ware ofsafety procedures and
protective equipment for the eyes in many sports, many may not be aware of facts about …