Witt, J. K., &Sugovic, M. (2010). Performance and ease influence perceived speed. Perception, 39(10), 1341-1353.
According to the action-specific perception account, perception is a function of optical information and the perceiver's ability to perform the intended action. While most of the evidence for the action-specific perception account is on spatial perception, in the current experiments we examined similar effects in the perception of speed. Tennis players reproduced the time the ball traveled from the feeder machine to when they hit ...