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Article: Top tennis players better than others at seeing objects drawing near at high speeds.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, September 12 (ANI): Top tennis players like Roger Federer are simply better in certain visual perception skills than others, and they are very fast at creating an internal simulation of a ball's flight that helps position them for a winning return, suggest new studies by Swiss and British experts.
An article on these studies points out that any sport that involves a moving object requires athletes to learn three levels of response for interceptive timing tasks, namely optometric reaction, perceptual reaction, and cognitive reaction.
It would be an optometric reaction if a person just sees a moving object drawing near, ...