title: I Lost It in the Lights: The Effects of Predictable and Variable Intermittent Vision on Unimanual Catching.
abstract: In this study, 2 competing views of interceptive action were examined by assessing the influence of variability in the interval between visual samples in a unimanual ball-catching task. Subjects were required to catch tennis balls projected over a distance of 14 m, under conditions of intermittent vision in which the between-sample intervals were either predictable or unpredictable. Results indicated that, although performance was best with shorter between-sample intervals, the temporal predictability of samples did not reliably affect catching performance. This suggests that between-sample retinal expansion provides sufficient information for the timing of the interceptive act.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Kinesiology , McMaster University.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.affiliation: a Department of Kinesiology , McMaster University.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fontaine
authors.affiliation: a Department of Kinesiology , McMaster University.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Elliott