ArticleOptometry & visual performance2020
Vertical head and eye movements in baseball batting.
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- Gaze Tracking of Pitched Balls in Coupled and Uncoupled Tasks.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Properties of Gaze Strategies Based on Eye-Head Coordination in a Ball-Catching Task.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Coincidence Anticipation Timing Responses with Head Tracking and Eye Tracking.Aerospace medicine and human performance · 2022Article
- Visual Strategies for Eye and Head Movements During Table Tennis Rallies.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe a method utilized to measure vertical head and eye movements and gaze positions of baseball batters and to report the initial findings generated with this method.
methodTwo former collegiate baseball players participated. Subjects batted balls from a pitching machine.
resultsResponses were similar for the two subjects. The head demonstrated a small upward rotation followed by a downward rotation. The eye was rotated opposite to the head throughout portions of the swing while gaze was directed below the ball (more for one subject than the other) for much of the pitch trajectory. DISCUSSION: These data align with previous assertions that in baseball batting, players attempt to keep pitched balls in a constant egocentric direction.
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