Players who had been hitting a baseball poorly perceived the ball as smaller than those who had been hitting well. This best illustrates that size perception can be influenced by

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The fact that players who were hitting poorly perceive the ball as smaller suggests that they were employing top-down processing, or using prior knowledge and experiences to interpret the sensory information about the size of the ball. This could have influenced their perception and made the ball appear smaller than it actually was, due to their previous experiences of hitting poorly.

Players Who Had Been Hitting a Baseball Poorly Perceived the Ball