Here's how hockey fans watch the puck without watching the puck
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Hockey fans rely on the context of the game to help them keep track of the puck, according to new research.
This is an Inside Science story. Predictive eye movement research shows that the brains of hockey fans may share a similarity with retired star Wayne Gretzky's. Just as the Great One didn't skate to the hockey puck, but to where it was going, fans' brains have learned to follow the action on ice without even seeing the puck. "That's a really great observation because it's all about prediction," said James Elder, a human and computer vision researcher at York University in Toronto. Researchers have long noted lag time between when our eyes track activity of small, fast-moving objects since it takes processing time for our brains.More Related News