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DOI : 10.1016/j.visres.2007.07.024

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Vision Research 47, 23 (2007) 2982-91

Intercepting free falling objects: better use Occam's razor than internalize Newton's law.

Robin Baurès 1, Nicolas Benguigui 2, Michel-Ange Amorim 1, Isabelle Siegler 1

(10/2007)

Several studies have recently provided empirical data supporting the view that gravity has been embodied in a quantitative internal model of gravity thereby permitting access to exact time-to-contact (TTC) when intercepting a free falling object. In this review, we discuss theoretical and methodological concerns with the experiments that supposedly support the assumption of a predictive and accurate model of gravity. Having done so, we then propose that only a "qualitative implicit physics knowledge" of the effects of gravity is used as an approximate pre-information that influences timing of interceptive actions in the specific case of free falling objects. Clear evidence remains to be provided to define how this knowledge is combined with optical information for on-line timing of interceptive actions.

1 :	Complexité, Innovation, Activités Motrices et Sportives (CIAMS)
	Université Paris XI - Paris Sud
2 :	Centre d'Etudes Sport et Activités MotriceS (CESAMS)
	Université de Caen Basse-Normandie

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