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#99 - The Right Amount of Noise
Everything in training assumes that cleaner is better. Cleaner mechanics, cleaner reps, cleaner video, cleaner data. For most of what we do, that is correct. For the visual system, it is sometimes exactly...
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#98 - Why Your Peripheral Vision May Predict Your Next ACL Injury
You jump for the ball. A defender moves into your peripheral vision. A teammate calls for the pass. Your original plan is gone, and you make a new decision in mid-air before you even land. What started that movement...
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#97 - Great Athletes Don’t Just See. They Predict.
An athlete’s advantage was never just about sharp eyesight.
Two new studies, from very different corners of science, land on the same point Dr. Laby has made throughout his career: performance depends not only on what...
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#96 - 23 Out of 24: What My Own Eyes Actually Look Like on the Data
This week Dr. Laby hands listeners his own scorecard. Sitting at his desk with nothing but a laptop camera and a piece of software he has been building and rebuilding for weeks, he runs himself through two tasks on...
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#95 - You Can’t Test a Batter’s Eyes Without a Bat
A new 2026 study in the journal Vision (Clutter & Fogt) put 15 baseball and softball batters through the same pitch, tracked two different ways: once with a real partial swing, once with no swing at all, just...
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#94 - The Gap No One Is Talking About: Coaches Are Training Vision - But Don’t Know Why
Seventy-three percent of coaches are now incorporating visual training into their programs — a number that should feel like a victory after thirty years of Dr. Laby making the case that vision is trainable and perform...
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#93 - The Referee's Pupil, the Game's Truth
The cleaner a sports vision experiment gets, the less it looks like the sport — a tension Dr. Laby has wrestled with for thirty years.
A lab can control lighting down to the lux and measure fixations to the millisecon...
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#92 - One Fixation Count, Two Opposite Answers
Two meta analyses asked the same question about visual search behavior and got opposite results...
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#91 - You Turn Before You See
An athlete on defense, no one in front of them, and then, without hearing or consciously seeing anything, they turn.
Coaches call it sports sense.
Teammates say eyes in the back of the head.
What's actually happening ...
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#90 - Messi Didn't "See the Future." Here's What Actually Happened.
The World Cup coverage couldn't stop talking about Almada and Messi "seeing the game before it happens."
Broadcasters reached for neuroscience and a fair amount of magic to explain it.
What they were actually describi...
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#89 - The Quiet Eye Wins World Cups
The United States faces Belgium in the Round of 16 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup — a rematch twelve years in the making.
Dr. Laby uses the match as a lens to explore the single visual behavior that most consistently sepa...
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#88 - The Hidden Edge the Eye Chart Never Found
Walk into any Major League spring training facility and you'll find a technician holding up a Snellen eye chart — the same one from 1862 — and clearing players for the season based on static acuity.
The problem: that ...
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