Chief Supervisor

Dr Jeffrey LEUNG

Project Title

Synopsis

Sports vision is a specialized field of optometry. It plays a crucial role in enhancing athletic performance by assessing, training and optimizing visual skills such as binocular vision, reaction time, visual information processing, and eye-hand coordination. Vision-centric sports, like table tennis or fencing, require athletes to rely heavily on these visual skills, while non-vision-centric sports, such as track and field and swimming, place less emphasis on them. Understanding how these visual demands differ across sports can offer valuable insights for optometrists developing sports vision training programs.

The project aims to investigate the visuomotor performance of athletes in both vision-centric and non-vision-centric sports, and explore the core cognitive functions and cortical regions responsible for processing visual information that underpins successful motor skills. By comparing athletes from different sports, the study seeks to reveal how visual demands in various sports affect visuomotor control, providing insights for selecting potential athletes based on visual profiling, improving athletic performance and reducing risk of injury through targeted visual training.