22 – Braking & Steering/Knuckleballs

The Perception & Action Podcast

Mar 01, 2016•25 min

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Episode description

How does a driver know when to start braking and whether they are braking hard enough to avoid a collision? Where do we look when we steer around a curve? Do race car drivers look somewhere different?

Why is it so hard to hit (and throw!) a knuckleball? (Time: 18:36)

Links to articles discussed:

A theory of visual control of braking based on information about time-to-collision

Time-to-contact judgment in the locomotion of adults and preschool children Visual control of braking: a test of the tau hypothesis Affordance-Based Control of Visually Guided Action A two-point visual control model of steering Where we look when we steer Which parts of the road guide steering?

Using vision to control locomotion: looking where you want to go

Expert Baseball Batters Have Greater Sensitivity in Making Swing Decisions

Knuckleball graph link:

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/6/10/1511336/why-is-it-so-hard-to-hit-the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36E46a1bG70

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