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There is large variation in individuals’s capability to aesthetically track fast-moving items, which may discuss why a few of us are naturally much better at ball sports
By Clare Wilson
Some individuals will see fast-moving things more plainly, some simply see a blur
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Our capability to view fast modifications in visual scenes gradually– our “speed of sight”– differs an unexpected quantity in between individuals, according to the very first research study to methodically examine the concern.
This recommends that some individuals can track fast-moving items much better than others since of their inherent remarkable vision, which might add to individuals’s various capabilities in sports like baseball and cricket, states Clinton Haarlem at Trinity College Dublin.
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