Is the contextual interference effect generalizable to computer games?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-15

  Shewokis, Patricia A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTERS; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPORTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0031066973     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1997.84.1.3     Document Type: Article

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