Sensation and Perception 9th Edition by Bruce Goldstein

Exercise 2

We have seen that gymnasts appear to take visual information into account as they are in the act of executing a somersault. In the sport of synchronized diving, two people execute a dive simultaneously from two side-by-side diving boards. They are judged based on how well they execute the dive and how well the two divers are synchronized with each other. What environmental stimuli do you think synchronized divers need to take into account in order to be successful?
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"Snapshots" of a somersault, or backflip, starting on the left and finishing on the right. From Bardy, B. G., Laurent, M. (1998). How is body orientation controlled during somersaulting? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24 , 963-977. Copyright © 1998 by The American Physiological Society. Reprinted by permission.