Keep your eye on the sky

[Howard Brown]

Neuroscience says tennis players need not keep their eye on the ball:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wimbledon-zen-and-murray-s-art-of-returning-a-tennis-serve-bzfx6dg0m

But cloudspotters should keep their eye on the sky?

P.S. The hardcopy heading says ‘superfast serves’ – you probably can’t read the article ‘cos of the barrier, but the ball is too fast for the brain to process visual information. Tennis player Murray says ‘You’re relying on instinct’ (hence practice).

[Howard Brown]

The article quotes Barry Smith. founding director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at London Uni. ‘….We know that the brain, having experienced similar events before, is predicting what it will receive….’

So I am thinking cloudspotters had better beware of perceptual illusion – their nervous system is getting two inputs at slightly different times, the predictive one then the sensual one. I think this is maybe where photographers have the edge, they check the two inputs match and don’t just assume, thereby becoming better observers?

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