Psychology @ Wooster Blog

The Cleveland Indians spring training baseball schedule begins tomorrow! What does baseball have to do with Psychology you ask? Lots, and it’s not just the “sports psychologist” connection. Sure, many teams employ psychologists to improve team or individual performance. But, baseball and psychology also intersect in visual perception, naive theories of physics, statistics, history, and motor control and many other areas.

Connections closer to home? Senior Psychology student (and Woo baseball player) Brandon Boesiger recently completed his I.S., which examined the visual and auditory information that batters use to time the arrival of the pitch.  It turns out that players can time the arrival of the pitch with their ears almost as well as they can with their eyes!