Attunement to haptic information helps skilled performers select implements for striking a ball in cricket

J Headrick; I Renshaw; Ross A Pinder; K Davids

doi:10.3758/s13414-012-0368-y

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Attunement to haptic information helps skilled performers select implements for striking a ball in cricket

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Attunement to haptic information helps skilled performers select implements for striking a ball in cricket

J Headrick, I Renshaw, Ross A Pinder and K Davids

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.74(8), pp.1782-1791

2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-012-0368-y

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haptics

perception and action

goal-directed movements

degeneracy

cricket

This study examined the perceptual attunement of relatively skilled individuals to the physical properties of striking implements in the sport of cricket. We also sought to assess whether utilizing bats with different physical properties would influence performance of a specific striking action: the front foot straight drive. Eleven skilled male cricketers (mean age 0 16.6 ± 0.3 years) from an elite school cricket development program consented to participate in the study. While blindfolded, participants wielded six bats exhibiting different mass and moment of inertia (MOI) characteristics and were asked to identify the three bats they preferred the most for hitting a ball to a maximum distance by performing a front foot straight drive (a common shot in cricket). Next, participants actually attempted to hit balls projected from a ball machine using each of the six bat configurations to enable kinematic analysis of front foot straight drive performance with each implement. Results revealed that, on first choice, the two bats with the smallest mass and MOI values (1 and 2) were most preferred by almost two thirds (63.7 %) of the participants. Kinematic analysis of movement patterns revealed that bat velocity, step length, and bat–ball contact position measures significantly differed between bats. Data revealed how skilled youth cricketers were attuned to the different bat characteristics and harnessed movement system degeneracy to perform this complex interceptive action.

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Title: Attunement to haptic information helps skilled performers select implements for striking a ball in cricket
Authors: J Headrick (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
I Renshaw (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Ross A Pinder (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
K Davids (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Publication details: Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, Vol.74(8), pp.1782-1791
Publisher: Springer New York LLC
Date published: 2012
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0368-y
ISSN: 1943-3921
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450403202621
Output Type: Journal article

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