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21E - Sport Science Shorts: A Ball By Any Other Color

21E - Sport Science Shorts: A Ball By Any Other Color

FromThe Perception & Action Podcast


21E - Sport Science Shorts: A Ball By Any Other Color

FromThe Perception & Action Podcast

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Feb 29, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Does ball color effect performance in sports? Do cricket batsman have the right to complain about pink balls and baseball batters about the brief experiment with orange ones?
 
Articles/links:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/oct/27/to-see-or-not-to-see-australian-cricket-divided-over-pink-ball-test
Effect of ball color on hitting performance by college softball players
Effect of softball color on batting performance in players and non-players
Ball color, eye color, and a reactive motor skill
Behavior of College Baseball Players in a Virtual Batting Task
The role of the baseball seam pattern in pitch recognition
 
More information:
http://perceptionaction.com/
My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)
My ASU Web page
Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)
 
Credits:
The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
50 Foot Wave – Hot Pink, Distorted
Monk Turner – (Yellow)
Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy
via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com
Released:
Feb 29, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Exploration of how psychology and sports science research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition and designing new technologies in sports and other high performance domains. Hosted by Rob Gray, professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, the podcast will review basic concepts and discuss the latest research in these areas.