Predictive eye movement research shows that the brains of hockey fans may share a similarity with retired star Wayne Gretzky's. Via InsideScience.
STOCK IMAGE/Bernhard Lang/Getty ImagesPredictive eye movement research shows that the brains of hockey fans may share a similarity with retired star Wayne Gretzky's. Just as the Great One didn't skate to the hockey puck, but to where it was going, fans' brains have learned to follow the action on ice without even seeing the puck.
"We have a very wide field of view, which is important for a lot of reasons. If you step off the curb, you want to know if a car is barreling towards you," said Elder. But our fovea -- the small area at the center of our retinas with tightly packed photoreceptors -- allows us to see things in the center of our vision with high resolution. Humans typically move this fovea, the focus of our vision, two or three times a second while tracking something of interest.
Alexander Goettker, a postdoctoral researcher with the Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany and the lead author of the studyin the journal Current Biology, had 15 participants watch hockey videos and tracked their eye motions as the pucks moved across the screen. But in videos showing real hockey games from the York University Lions varsity women's and men's teams, the eye motions of the viewers didn't have that delay. When they saw one player make a pass, their eyes would immediately jump to the player they expected to receive the pass.
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