How Can People Be so Good at Intercepting Accelerating Objects if They Are so Poor at Visually Judging Acceleration?

People are known to be very poor at visually judging acceleration. Yet, they are extremely proficient at intercepting balls that fall under gravitational acceleration. How is this possible? We previously found that people make systematic errors when trying to tap on targets that move with different...

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Main Authors: Eli Brenner, Inés Abalo Rodriguez, Victor Estal Muñoz, Sabine Schootemeijer, Yannick Mahieu, Kirsten Veerkamp, Marit Zandbergen, Tim van der Zee, Jeroen BJ Smeets
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669515624317