How soccer players head the ball: a test of Optic Acceleration Cancellation theory with virtual reality.
We measured the movements of soccer players heading a football in a fully immersive virtual reality environment. In mid-flight the ball's trajectory was altered from its normal quasi-parabolic path to a linear one, producing a jump in the rate of change of the angle of elevation of gaze (alpha)...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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