Perception & Navigation in Sports

  Dolgov, I., McBeath, M.K., & Sugar, T.G. (2009). Evidence for axis-aligned motion bias: Football axis - trajectory misalignment causes systematic error in projected final destinations of thrown American footballs, Perception 38(3), 399-410.
  McBeath, M. K., Nathan, A. M., Bahill, A. T. & Baldwin, D. G. (2008). Paradoxical pop-ups: Why are they hard to catch? American Journal of Physics. 76(8), 723-729.  
 

Shaffer, D. M., McBeath, M. K., Krauchunas, S. M., & Sugar, T. G. (2008). Evidence for a generic interceptive strategy. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(1), 145-157.

  
Oberle, C.D., Hollums, N.K., McBeath, M.K., & Terry, D.P. (2006).  Motion by nearby players biases perception but not action in judgments of basball destinations.  Perceptual and Motor Skills, 103(2), 585-606.
Sugar, T.G., McBeath, M.K., & Wang, Z. (2006). A unified fielder theory for interception of moving objects either above or below the horizon, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13(5), 908-917.
Dennis M. Shaffer & Michael K. McBeath (2005). Naive Beliefs in Baseball: Systematic Distortion in Perceived Time of Apex for Fly Balls
 

Our star subject, Lilly, with watermellon Frisbee
 Dennis M.Shaffer, Scott M.Krauchunas, Marianna Eddy & Michael K.McBeath (2004) How Dogs Navigate to Catch Frisbees
  Dennis M.Shaffer, Michael K.McBeath, Windy L. Roy & Scott M.Krauchunas, Marianna Eddy (2003) A Linear Optical Trajectory Informs the Fielder Where to Run to the Side to Catch Fly Balls
Dennis M.Shaffer & Michael K.McBeath (2002) Baseball Outfielders Maitain a Liinear Optical Trajectory When Tracjing Uncatchable Fly Balls
Animal Cognition and Behavior Book  

Stephen B. Fountain, Michael D. Bunsey, Joseph H. Danks, Michael K. McBeath (2001). Animal Cognition and Sequential Behavior: Behavioral, Biological, and Computational Perspectives
   Michael K. McBeath (1996) On Catching Balls
   
Henry N. Pollack; Robert K. Adair; Lewis A. Chodosh; Lawrence E. Lifson; Cliff Tabin; Richard A. Jacobs; Michael K. McBeath; Dennis M. Shaffer; Mary K. Kaiser (1995) Play Ball
   
Michael K. McBeath; Dennis M. Shaffer; Mary K. Kaiser (1995) How Baseball Outfielders Determine Where to Run to Catch Fly Balls

McBeath, M. K. (1990). The rising fastball: Baseball's impossible pitch.  Perception, 19(4), 545-552.

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