Ball color, eye color, and a reactive motor skill.
Researchers investigating performance differences between light- and dark-eyed individuals have indicated that dark-eyed individuals perform better on reactive activities than light-eyed individuals. College students (61 men, 64 women) performed a forehand rally with different colored racquetballs. Eye color, sex, and total hits were recorded for each subject. Men scored significantly better with balls of each color than did women. Dark-eyed men performed better than other subjects and performance was better with blue balls than yellow or green balls.
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Department of HPES/Crawford Gym, University of Louisville, KY 40292.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D005127:Eye Color; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D015865:Racquet Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D011930:Reaction Time; D012737:Sex Factors