Critical Time Intervals for Taking in Flight Information in a Ball-Catching Task
- 1 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ergonomics
- Vol. 13 (2) , 265-272
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140137008931141
Abstract
A ball-catching task in which the ball was caused to enter on a parabolic flight path by means of a mechanical apparatus was administered to 36 male students between the ages of 18 and 40 years. An electronic device enabled the ball to be illuminated for predetermined temporal intervals during its flight. Results indicated that in this relatively unpredictable task opportunity to watch the ball for longer periods of time resulted in increased catching success. Results are discussed in relation to previous experimental work in which the ball was on a more predictable trajectory (since output information was available) and are related to the perceptual moment hypothesis.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- Training in a Continuous Ball Throwing and Catching TaskErgonomics, 1968
- THE DETECTION OF CHANGE AND THE PERCEPTUAL MOMENT HYPOTHESIS1British Journal of Statistical Psychology, 1964
- Temporal numerosity and the psychological unit of duration.Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 1963
- Analysis of Eye Movements during Free SearchJournal of the Optical Society of America, 1959
- ESTIMATION OF MOVEMENT AS A FUNCTION OF THE DISTANCE OF MOVEMENT PERCEPTION AND TARGET DISTANCEPublished by SAGE Publications ,1955
- Multiple Range and Multiple F TestsPublished by JSTOR ,1955
- Maximum rates of form perception and the alpha rhythm: an investigation and test of current nerve net theory.Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1954
- Distortion in the perception of real movement.Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1944