Catching What We Can't See: Manual Interception of Occluded Fly-Ball Trajectories

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bosco, Gianfranco ^a,b   Delle Monache, Sergio ^a,b   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PREDICTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASEBALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GRAVITY SENSING; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84869112270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049381     Document Type: Article

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