Perception: The dartboard disc looks larger after hitting the mark

    Perception: The dartboard disc looks larger after hitting the mark

    Under the sign perception it is less faithful than we are willing to accept.
    This is a reality that has been proven by the latest studies carried out in the field
    of psychology.

    When it comes to darts, it's obvious
    that while the bigger they are the easier it will be to hit the center of the disco of tirassegno. However, what if ours
    perception changed and we saw the center of the dartboard larger than it
    isn't it actually? James comes to explain this phenomenon
    Gibson, who states that the way we use our bodies for
    interacting with the surrounding environment affects our perception. Yes
    knows how the Affordance Theory,
    a term that refers to the opportunities for action we have in a
    certain environment. Following this line of reasoning i
    researchers from the National University of South Korea, have devised a
    very interesting experiment. They asked 9 professional archers to shoot
    their arrows against a disc with five concentric circles located at 50
    meters away. After shooting each arrow, the
    archers had to immediately turn their heads to the other side so as not to see
    the path of the same. After each arrow hit the disc, this one
    it was removed so that archers didn't know when and how much they were
    went close to the center. The most interesting thing was that after
    each throw, the archers had to indicate in a notebook the size of the
    central circle of the disc, which ranged from 10 mm in diameter to 27 mm. The
    curious was that, even if the archers could not know how close to the
    center had gone with the arrow, the size they indicated
    corresponded exactly to their launch. That is, after throwing the
    arrow successfully, the center was perceived as larger. Researchers think archers are
    able to know how close to the center an arrow has gone depending
    from the retro power that their body offers them. In other words, thank you
    to especially physical experience, shooters perceive more or less
    close to the center is every arrow gone. The more the shot was good, the more so
    the center of the disc will be perceived large. These results follow the same line
    of research undertaken by researchers at the universities of Purdue and the
    Virgina, according to whom, the best professional golf players
    they perceive holes as larger than amateurs. With both results in mind, I believe
    that the change in perception does not depend so much on the body but rather
    from our mind. That is, our body can give us the retro power of the
    shooting but it is the mind where this idea is inserted and where we realize
    all matching calculations. In the end, if a goal turns out to be easy for us to
    to achieve, it will seem bigger to us but if we think it is difficult, we will see it
    in its actual size or even smaller. This change of
    perception can be highlighted both before and after the shot. Basically, yes
    would deal with the same idea that applies to phobias: when we are afraid of
    a spider, we perceive it as larger than it actually is.
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