Before reviewing the challenge posed in the last lesson (using our new neural approach), we need to understand just how complex the issue can be. Elsewhere on WebBall we explain that there are actually 4 separate systems which control eye movement for focus and tracking and how those can be affected by our dominant eye. (We list the 4 systems again here in the side column.)

But that's not the whole picture.
How does the brain take in and interpret the information? And how does that affect how we coach or how we perform?


Here's the question rephrased by Dr. Anne Treisman now at Princeton in her work on visual attention, search, and what she calls the "binding problem" (the way in which the brain correlates data)...

"What kinds of information are available without focusing attention when we are presented with multi-element arrays and what kinds require focused attention? What variables control the deployment of spatial attention?" - Anne Treisman, Princeton

Part of her research is based on how the brain "maps" such information. "Map" is in quotes because the brain doesn't appear to store whole images ...instead it stores simplified representations of image elements...

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