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Athletes' Minds Excel at Motion Tracking
LiveScience ^ | January 31, 2013 | Tanya Lewis

Posted on 01/31/2013 2:34:53 PM PST by EveningStar

What made Wayne Gretzky a hockey legend or Ronaldo a soccer star may have had more to do with brains than brawn. Professional athletes process complex visual scenes faster than other people, a new study finds.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Science; Sports
KEYWORDS: nss
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1 posted on 01/31/2013 2:35:06 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I saw no reference to baseball players in the summary, yet there were gobs of soccer players, and I submit that the ability to size up a complex baseball situation and act accordingly, and the ability to size up a baseball coming to you from the pitcher at speeds up to 100 mph and react to it, are certainly more difficult that kicking some damn ball down the field or trying to interfere with it.


2 posted on 01/31/2013 2:43:34 PM PST by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum

Agreed.


3 posted on 01/31/2013 2:44:31 PM PST by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: OldPossum

That is true. You could pump me full of all the steroids in the world and I would still most likely strike out.


4 posted on 01/31/2013 2:53:01 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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To: EveningStar

Love your Captain Obvious photo. My thoughts exactly: It took a study to ‘prove’ that stars like Wayne Gretsky, Ted Williams, and dare I say it, Ray Lewis, see and compute action faster than other people.

Doh!


5 posted on 01/31/2013 4:04:53 PM PST by maica (Welcome to post-rational America.)
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To: EveningStar

I will buy this. I remember in school being taught how to hit a baseball and the man kept on saying : Watch the ball!

And I kept thinking: What ball?


6 posted on 01/31/2013 4:23:17 PM PST by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: EveningStar
Some time ago, I had a neighbor who was a pro motorcycle racer (Camel Pro/Winston Pro at the national level). He showed me one night that he could glance at a 33 1/3 record (yes, it was that long ago) for a second or two as it was playing and "capture" the entire label's contents. He repeated back everything that was printed on the label - song titles in order, running times, composers, even the tiny print of the copyright notice around the outside of the label.
7 posted on 01/31/2013 4:34:31 PM PST by Bob
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To: Bob

That’s amazing. I heard that Ted Williams supposedly could do the same thing.


8 posted on 01/31/2013 7:22:53 PM PST by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: OldPossum
..the ability to size up a baseball coming to you from the pitcher at speeds up to 100 mph...

It was said that Ted Williams could see the spin of a pitched ball and calculate what the ball would do.

9 posted on 01/31/2013 8:10:04 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Soylent Green is Boomers)
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