[shadowbox] Eye & Head Movements in Batting: Challenging the “Truths” Having considered what a batter should do with their eyes before the ball is released in my previous post, I now want to move on to look how a batter tracks the ball from the pitcher’s hand to the plate. In reviewing what we understand…
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73 Is focusing one’s attention on skill execution as a result of increased self-consciousness really the primary cause “choking under pressure”? Is the evidence in support of this theory flawed? Download link Articles: Putting pressure on theories of choking: towards an expanded perspective on breakdown in skilled performance The fourth dimension: A motoric perspective on…
Read More[shadowbox] “Soft Focus” or Visual Pivot Point: Which Should Baseball Batters Use? The Challenge: In order to hit a baseball you obviously need to be able to “see it” first. Evidence has shown that good hitters can follow the ball’s flight via eye and head movements and can pick up subtle information from the ball’s…
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72 A discussion with Edward Coughlan. Lecturer in Skill Acquisition at the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland. We discuss practice design, skill acquisition, deliberate practice, and occlusion training with Chin Up Googles. Download link More information about my guest: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edward_Coughlan2 http://dredwardcoughlan.com/profile/ https://twitter.com/DrSkillAcq http://www.chinupgoggles.com/ More information: Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Android/Google My Research Gate…
Read More[shadowbox] Visual Information about Horizontal Pitch Movement: Sensitivity, Release Points & Eye Separation Following up on my post on pitch tunneling which examined pitch movement in the vertical plane, I want to now consider visual information available to a batter about the trajectory of pitch in the horizontal plane (e.g., whether it will cross on…
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71 How have researchers used virtual environments to distort reality, disobey gravity, create conflicting feedback, and alter an athlete’s perception in the name of science? How have they effectively brought rate events in sports into the lab? Download link Articles: Behavior of College Baseball Players in a Virtual Batting Task Perceiving and Acting upon Spaces…
Read More[shadowbox] The Psychology of Quick Pitching & Altering Deliveries In recent years some prominent MLB pitchers have begun altering the timing of their delivery in an attempt to mess with batters (although it is not a new practice). A few examples of how Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman does this can be seen in…
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70 A discussion with Anne Benjaminse from the Department for Human Movement Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. We discuss the role of attentional focus in injury prevention and recovery, using video feedback and VR as rehabilitation tools, and making “return to play” decisions. Download link More information about my guest: http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.benjaminse/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne_Benjaminse…
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69 How effective are VEs for sports training? Have they achieved good fidelity? Can they induce competitive anxiety? Does augmentation help performance? Do they show evidence of transfer of training? Download link Articles: Distance Perception in Real and Virtual Environments Do monocular time-to-collision estimates necessarily involve perceived distance? Motion in depth: Adequate and inadequate simulation…
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68 A discussion with Emma Mosley, Lecturer in the School of Sport, Health and Social Sciences at Southampton Solent University. We discuss topics including emotional intelligence, guidelines for using heart rate variability, performance under pressure, and links between personality traits and sports. Download link More information about my guest: https://www.solent.ac.uk/staff-profiles/academic-profiles/emma-mosley/emma-mosley https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma_Mosley https://twitter.com/ Emma_Mosley More information:…
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