Visual strategies of sub-elite cricket batsmen in response to different ball velocities

Human Movement Science

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 751-763

  Croft, J L ^a   Button, C ^b   Dicks, M ^b,c  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cricket; Gaze; Hitting; Interceptive actions; Spatio temporal constraints; Variability; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FLIGHT; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA FOVEA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPORT; VELOCITY; VISION;

BODY HEIGHT; CLOTHING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; SACCADES; SPORTS; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956442202     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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