Strobe effects are no longer just for the dance floor.
A team of Duke psychologists specializing in visual perception and attention has found that modified, strobe-producing eye glasses may help athletes’ brains better process movement. The eyewear’s lenses rapidly flicker between clear and opaque states, producing a strobe-like effect. By training with these glasses, athletes may experience benefits that supplement what they can achieve through normal training.
“It’s all still preliminary,” said Stephen Mitroff, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience who led the research. “We did find significant effects [that show] that vision and attention are altered through this strobe training, suggesting that these abilities can be enhanced and that they are malleable and that this may be an interesting way to go about asking questions about the malleability of perception and attention.”
Nearly 500 people—Duke athletes from the varsity football, men’s basketball and men’s and women’s soccer teams, as well as students on club teams and other undergraduates—participated in the study.
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