#ICYMI - Baseball: Brain Training

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🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What happens inside the brain of a great baseball hitter, and can it be taught? Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore the subject with baseball vision trainer Dr. Bill Harrison, neuroscientist Prof. Aaron Seitz, and baseball analyst and former LA Dodgers GM Ned Colleti. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: TuneIn: tunein.com/playingwithscience Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360 GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/baseball-brain-training/

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0:00.0	Today we return to an American favorite, namely Baseball, and specifically focus on baseball
0:16.5	brain training.
0:18.4	To ding a 95 mile an hour fastball is said to be one of, if not, the most difficult
0:24.2	thing to execute in elite sport.
0:26.5	Many have tried few have succeeded, but what if there was a way to improve the odds in
0:31.6	the batter's favor?
0:32.6	Oh, I know what that is.
0:33.9	No, Chuck, not Royd's.
0:35.7	Oh, damn.
0:36.7	Okay.
0:37.7	Well, listen, helping us see our way to the home run, Gloria and Hall of Fame is Baseball
0:42.2	Vision Trainer, Dr. Bill Harrison, someone who already has a list of happy hitters sprinkled
0:48.8	around the major leagues.
0:50.7	And helping us get inside the mind of a major league hitter and helping improve our overall
0:55.2	game is neuroscientist professor Aaron Sites, a man who is about to get his work cut out
1:01.6	with Chuck and I absolutely.
1:03.8	And finally, we're going to hear from Ned Coletti, former manager of the LA Dodgers
1:08.6	and current major league baseball analysts on tune ends at the plate.
1:13.0	So once again, man, we're looking at a bull show.
1:16.6	Yeah.
1:17.6	First up on the plate, Dr. Bill Harrison, a vision trainer.
1:21.2	Hey, Dr. Bill, how are you?
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