Who really hit the basketball out of bounds?

When a basketball is knocked out of bounds, it matters who touched it last. Determining which player touched last is often not so simple but can have consequences, especially during playoff basketball. Researchers have found people consistently experience their own actions as happening 50 milliseconds earlier than other people’s actions. This self-centered bias in touch perception provides a new quantifiable example of how experience does not always match reality.

Source: sciencedaily.com

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