Application to improve eyesight appeared, contributing to improving batting rate of batter

ByPierre-Olivier Carles

When a professional baseball pitcher throws a speed ball of 153 km / h, the ball moves from the pitcher's hand to the catcher's glove in only 0.4 seconds. And it is a great advantage to have a "better eyes" for baseball players, as batters have to decide where to shake the bat in less than half the time, where to hit.

Meanwhile, Aaron Zeit who works as a neuroscientist at the University of California's Riverside has created an "application that will allow users to see more distant" available for anyone, and this week'sCurrent BiologyIn thatPublish researchDid.

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In the study of Mr. Seitz, to 19 players belonging to the baseball team of Riverside school, he created "UltimEyesIt seems that they tried the application called "I tried it." As a result of this experiment, the "clearly visible distance" of 19 subjects using the application increased by an average of 31%.

Furthermore, after measuring the subject's visual acuity after using this application 30 times at 25-minute intervals, most of the visual acuity exceeded 1.0, of which seven had visual acuity exceeding 2.6, greatly improving eyesight about.

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In addition, it is also surveyed whether subjects in this experiment can outperform batting better than other baseball players. Mr. Zaitz thinks that at the Riverside school baseball team after starting to train eyesight with the app, the score is clearly higher than before and at least four victories have been brought by the application throughout the season. Although it is an app with an unbelievable effect in the near future, Mr. Peggy series which is a neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh pushed the Daigens that the effect of this application is genuine.

ByRafael Amado Deras

"UltimEyes" does not physically improve the muscles of eyes and eyes, it is applied "nerve cell plasticity". "In the last decade, I began to understand that it is somewhat similar to how to train the brain and train the body.When we train the brain in a proper way, improve almost all brains It must be possible to do, "Mr. Seitz says.

"UltimEyes" trains the visual cortex, which is a part related to the visual sense of the brain. To put it concretely, the visual field of the brain "Gabor stimuliIt is processing it by fuzzy pattern called "fuzzy pattern", but in "UltimEyes" it shows that Gabor stimuli is shown directly to the eyes, so that the brain is training so that they can process these more efficiently Thing. And this training improves the brain 's ability and broadens the range clearly visible to the eyes.


You can see the actual movie playing "UltimEyes" in the following movie.


"UltimEyes" displays Gabor stimuli in a gray background and gradually displays blurred and difficult identification. When training, clicking on these is OK, and if it is correctly identified, the sound will be heard.

At the present time, the more specific part of "why brain's abilities improve" remains unknown, and it is unknown how long this brain's ability improvement will show its effect. However, it is said that the vision of originally high vision also improved vision, Mr. Seitz suggests that the limit of human sight may be higher.

ByAhmed Sinan