Voluntary saccades in fast ball games

In this princeps study of voluntary eye movements in fast ball games, a gro up of experienced sportsmen is compared with a group of inexperienced contr ols on an antisaccade task. The experienced players did not make more antic ipatory eye movements or wrongly directed antisaccades. Their antisaccadic latency time was shorter than that of the controls. These results suggest t hat frontal control of saccades is favored in fast ball games. The findings are discussed in terms of a two-process model of eye movements and attenti on.