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EyeMemo
Website:  www.polar-lights.com/free2000/fg_memo.html
Skill Trained: Visual Memory
Athletic Value: Visual memory is an essential skill for athletes in team sports, who must constantly see and record where teammates and opponents are on the field.  Athletes with well-trained visual memory skills tend to be in the right place at the right time.

Perceptual Threshold Test
Website: cognitivelabs.com/test2_intro.htm
Skill Trained: Peripheral Awareness
Athletic Value: Peripheral awareness is the ability to know what’s happening on either side of you without turning your head.  It’s an essential skill for athletes and can help them improve reaction speed, anticipation, field awareness, team play and creativity.

Escape
Website: members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html
Skill Trained: Eye-Hand Coordination and Anticipation
Athletic Value:  Eye-hand coordination is a crucial athletic skill involving how effective we are at translating what our eyes see into appropriate physical responses, such as anticipating the motion of a ball thrown our way so we can catch it.

Escaping Sheep
Website: www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep
Skill Trained: Visual Reaction Speed, Eye-Hand Coordination
Athletic Value: In any sport, the faster the reflexes and the better the eye-hand coordination, the better the performance.

Mental Quickness and Reaction Time
Website: cognitivelabs.com/alltests.htm
Skill Trained: Mental Processing Speed and Visual Memory
Athletic Value: Helps athletes to react faster than opponents.

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