71 – Virtual Environments for Training & Understanding Sports Skills III: Altering Reality for Research

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?


 


Articles/links:
Behavior of College Baseball Players in a Virtual Batting Task
Perceiving and Acting upon Spaces in a VR Rugby Task: Expertise
Effects in Affordance Detection and Task Achievement Virtual
reality as a tool for the study of perception– action: the case of
running to catch fly balls Catching fly balls in virtual reality: A
critical test of the outfielder problem How soccer players head the
ball: A test of optic acceleration cancellation theory with virtual
reality Saccades to future ball location reveal memory-based
prediction in a virtual-reality interception task Virtual Thrower
Versus Real Goalkeeper: The Influence of Different Visual
Conditions on Performance A Model of Motor Inhibition for a Complex
Skill: Baseball Batting How Do Batters Use Visual, Auditory, and
Tactile Information About the Success of a Baseball Swing? “As soon
as the bat met the ball, I knew it was gone”: Outcome prediction,
hindsight bias, and the representation and control of action in
expert and novice baseball players How information guides movement:
Intercepting curved free kicks in soccer Visuo-motor delay,
information–movement coupling, and expertise in ball sports  

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