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Stereo vision enhances the learning of a catching skill

Authors: Liesbeth I. N. Mazyn, Matthieu Lenoir, Gilles Montagne, Christophe Delaey, Geert J. P. Savelsbergh

Published in: Experimental Brain Research | Issue 4/2007

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of stereo vision to the acquisition of a natural interception task. Poor catchers with good (N = 8; Stereo+) and weak (N = 6; Stereo−) stereo vision participated in an intensive training program spread over 2 weeks, during which they caught over 1,400 tennis balls in a pre-post-retention design. While the Stereo+ group improved from a catching percentage of 18% to 59%, catchers in the Stereo− group did not significantly improve (from 10 to 31%), this progress being indifferent from a control group (N = 9) that did not practice at all. These results indicate that the development and use of of compensatory cues for depth perception in people with weak stereopsis is insufficient to successfully deal with interceptions under high temporal constraints, and that this disadvantage cannot be fully attenuated by specific and intensive training.

There is a wealth of indirect evidence for the use of stereo vision in interceptive behaviour from studies with a monocular/binocular paradigm or from studies using a telestereoscope or virtual reality (Rushton and Wann 1999; Judge and Bradford 1988; van der Kamp et al. 1999). However, covering one eye implies the loss of more than stereo vision alone since concordant information is also absent. In addition, most of these studies use healthy participants for whom a particular visual condition is a new and unusual situation, which makes comparison with the behaviour of people with an early onset lack of stereopsis problematic. For an elaboration of these arguments, see Lenoir et al. (1999) and Mazyn et al. (2004).

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Title: Stereo vision enhances the learning of a catching skill
Authors: Liesbeth I. N. Mazyn
Matthieu Lenoir
Gilles Montagne
Christophe Delaey
Geert J. P. Savelsbergh
Publication date: 01-06-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Experimental Brain Research / Issue 4/2007
Print ISSN: 0014-4819
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-007-0957-5

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