Precise timing when hitting falling balls

People are extremely good at hitting falling balls with a baseball bat. Despite the ball’s constant acceleration, they have been reported to time hits with a standard deviation of only about 7ms. To examine how people achieve such precision, we compared performance when there were no added restricti...

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Main Authors: Eli eBrenner, Ben eDriesen, Jeroen B.J. Smeets
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00342/full