Search results

  1. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    https://j3.ideenweberei.com/billardtest-en sorry.
  2. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    Hi everyone, first of all, thank you very much to everyone who has already taken part in the test. Your support is greatly appreciated. I will close the test and begin the final phase of my study this Wednesday. So if anyone is still willing to participate, I would be very grateful if you...
  3. C

    Taking the Pocket Out of Aiming

    Same! I think the concept of looking for the ball edges is important, not the hidious idea of pivoting when your down on the shot.
  4. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    because image rotation is just the reduction of what you do in Billiards all the time. For instance: You are at the table and the next shot will pot the object ball and after that you will bank the cue ball and position it somewhere on the other site from were you stand at the moment. You do not...
  5. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    ....as long as my Test is the right tool to answer such questions. That is the main challenge I face: Creating a test, having to evaluate the test and at the same time evaluate this funfamental questions.
  6. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    I guess it is a sepparate issue: "Difficulty with left and right" but no difficulty with rotating shapes or predicting trajectories correctly and that even when you need to take counter effets into consideration and a lot of other factors. Dyslexia for instance is a quite isolated phenomena, as...
  7. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    I asked myself if there are more left hand players, then in the overall population, but maybe it is just biased, as I am playing left handed and tend to recognize all other left handers...
  8. C

    Do spatial reasoning and movement prediction matter in aiming? Psychology thesis study

    I really need participants of all skill levels.
  9. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    Oh sorry
  10. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    Well from a scientific view of things, it needs for my Hypothesis (plural) and within a defined margin of error around 200 participants, as long as they are evenly devided in the different skill levels. The more the better but we would have some 2.500 plus in Austria alone (competitive amateurs)...
  11. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    Because I tend to think and hypothesise, that this traits are fundamental predictors for high performers in our sport. I am not so sure that this is equally the case for other sports beside other precision Sports.
  12. C

    Taking the Pocket Out of Aiming

    I totally agree and have very similar opinions about it.
  13. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    This differences are beyound tabula rasa, but your explanation of evolutionary differences (not realy roles) may play a role.
  14. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    I mean the task to mentally rotate objects (tables) in order to predict in case of Billiard ball trajectories and positions.
  15. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    With limitations as they are traits or you may call them talents. What we can achieve in Trainings though is compensation of weaknesses in that area and sure: Train to maximize your skills within the limitations. As an example: if you have a hard time to mentally rotate a table for exact...
  16. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    Propably. But she was second in 14.1 World Championship as far as I can remember.
  17. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    My study investigates whether neurocognitive abilities can predict performance in pool billiards. The central hypothesis is that successful pool players differ from less successful players in specific cognitive skills that are directly relevant to the game, especially mental rotation, spatial...
  18. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    In classic psychology research, mental rotation is one of the spatial abilities where male–female differences have been reported most consistently. Large sex differences are especially found in mental rotation tasks, more than in many other cognitive domains. For pool, this could matter because...
  19. C

    Taking the Pocket Out of Aiming

    the system works if you pivot accordingly, but this is also the weakness of all this CTE like systems: You mess up fundamentals by pivoting around whilst preparing your shot.
  20. C

    Psychology bachelor’s thesis on neurocognitive aspects of pool billiards – participants wanted

    no, no: if mental rotation plays a role, then you can expect those differences because of what we know about this field since more then 40 years! Just look into the research regarding mental rotation and gender differences...
Back
Top