Visual Insights with Ryan Harrison - SENAPTEC Radar reports

Ryan Harrison, Dir of Training for NDVPerformance and Herb Yoo, CTO and co-founder at SENAPTEC discuss the importance and value of Performance Vision.

The SENAPTEC radar chart allows coaches, trainers, and athletes to recognize the importance of Performance Vision beyond the traditional measurements of visual acuity. Good vision is certainly the foundation but visual performance is more related to how the brain sees vs just the eyes. SENAPTEC performance vision assessment measures various dimensions including:

• Visual acuity
• Contrast sensitivity
• Depth perception
• Near-far quickness
• Perception span
• Multiple object tracking
• Reaction time
• Target capture
• Eye-hand coordination
• Go/no go decision making

The advantage of this tool is the ability to compare performance vs peers. In addition, it can show improvements vs initial baseline, as in the case discussed involving a concussion patient before and after training.

For additional scientific information on SENAPTEC 

• Sports vision training: A review of the state-of-the-art in digital training techniques L. Gregory Appelbaum &Graham Erickson

• Sensorimotor abilities predict onfield performance in professional baseball Kyle Burris1, Kelly Vittetoe2, Benjamin Ramger2, Sunith Suresh1, Surya T. Tokdar1, Jerome P. Reiter1 & L. Gregory Appelbaum2,3

• Visual-motor expertise in athletes: Insights from semiparametric modeling of 2317 athletes tested on the Nike SPARQ Sensory Station Kyle Burris,Sicong Liu &Lawrence Appelbaum

Additional resources

• Free 30day SENAPTEC online training
• SENAPTEC Strobes