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Goalkeepers and baseball catchers who miss curved or spinning balls coming at them may not be at fault.
Research by a psychologist in Northern Ireland, who tested the ability of athletes to follow the path of balls with spin, said humans cannot anticipate the trajectory.
'The human visual system just isn't equipped to track the curved course of a fast-spinning ball,' said Cathy Craig in New Scientist magazine.
Craig, of Queen's University in Belfast, decided to test the human ability to follow spinning balls after seeing soccer star Roberto Carlos score a goal for Brazil in 1997.
'Everybody seemed to think it was going wide,' she told the magazine. 'Then it curved in at the last minute.'
Goalkeepers and baseball catchers who miss curved or spinning balls coming at them may not be at fault.Research by a psychologist in Northern Ireland, who tested the ability of athletes to follow the path of balls with spin, said humans cannot anticipate the trajectory.
'The human visual system just isn't equipped to track the curved course of a fast-spinning ball,' said Cathy Craig in New Scientist magazine.
Craig, of Queen's University in Belfast, decided to test the human ability to follow spinning balls after seeing soccer star Roberto Carlos score a goal for Brazil in 1997.
'Everybody seemed to think it was going wide,' she told the magazine. 'Then it curved in at the last minute.'
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