Dynamic Visual Acuity and Coincidence-Anticipation Timing by Experienced and Inexperienced Women Players of Fast Pitch Softball

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between dynamic visual acuity and coincidence-anticipation timing in 16 inexperienced and 16 experienced women's fast pitch softball players. Pearson-product correlations indicated a low relationship between dynamic visual acuity and coincidence-anticipation timing. The correlations for dynamic visual acuity and coincidence anticipation between experienced and inexperienced dynamic visual acuity were not significant. A significant difference was found between the mean dynamic visual acuity of the two groups, i.e., experienced players had better dynamic visual acuity than inexperienced players. Analysis of variance of constant errors, variable errors, and absolute errors of coincidence anticipation indicated no significant differences between groups or across the three accuracy scores. The interaction between experience and accuracy was not significant.

Sports can protect dynamic visual acuity from aging: A study with young and older judo and karate martial arts athletes

“…The results obtained with young participants are in agreement with previous findings suggesting better visual abilities in sportsmen than in the general population (e.g., Arkaru, Çaliskan, & Dane, 2009;Giglia et al, 2011;Mori, Ohtani, & Imanaka, 2002); concretely, our results agree with those showing that athletes perform better than nonathletes in DVA tasks (e.g., Ishigaki & Miyao, 1993;Millslagle, 2000;Quevedo et al, 2011;Uchida et al, 2013;Uchida et al, 2012).…”

“…Previous studies with young athletes have shown superior DVA in young practitioners of baseball (Uchida et al, 2012(Uchida et al, , 2013, tennis and badminton (Ishigaki & Miyao, 1993;Rouse, DeLand, Christian, & Hawley, 1988), motorsports (Schneiders et al, 2010), water polo (Quevedo, AznarCasanova, Merindano-Encina, Cardona, & Solé-Fortó, 2011), softball (Millslagle, 2000), cycling (Millslagle, Delarosby, & Vonbank, 2005), and cricket (Land & McLeod, 2000), whereas just a few studies have not found any difference between athletes and nonathletes (e.g., Schneiders et al, 2010;Ward & Williams, 2003). As far as we know, no study has investigated DVA in competitive judo and karate martial arts athletes, as compared to sedentary young adults.…”

Visual Skills and Playing Positions of Olympic Field Hockey Players

“…Previous studies have identified marked differences between elite and non-elite sport performers in a variety of visual skills, including dynamic visual acuity (Millslagle, 2000;Barnes & Schmid, 2002), stereopsis (Coffey & Reichow, 1990), saccades (Christenson & Winkelstein, 1988;Zhang & Watanabe, 2005), pursuit (Bahill & LaRitz, 1984), hand-eye coordination (Vogel & Hale, 1992), visual reaction time (Dogan, 2009), peripheral awareness (Zwierko, 2008), speed of recognition (Isaacs & Finch, 1983), attentional processing (Overney, Blanke, & Herzog, 2008), and visual field (Berg & Killian, 1995). In team ball sports, each position tends to have very different physical, tactical, and skill-related demands.…”

Vision Training and Reaction Training for Improving Performance and Reducing Injury Risk in Athletes

“…Studies have shown that dynamic visual acuity is superior in skilled athletes in various sports, including softball, volleyball, basketball, and tennis. [18][19][20][21] Goa et al found increased visuomotor skills, convergence, accommodative facility, and dynamic acuity in athletes when compared to non-athletes with the largest differentiation in "critical visuomotor skills" which included manual interception, visually guided locomotion, and depth judgement. 22 When evaluating the mean visual reaction time of professional baseball players, Classe et al, found a statistically significant association between visual reaction time and batting skill as represented by batting average.…”