Competition and performance on a computer-based complex perceptual- motor task

Human Factors

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 410-416

  Worchel, Stephen ^a   Shebilske, Wayne L ^a   Jordan, Jeffrey A ^a   Prislin, Radmila ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECREATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 0031412266     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778827025     Document Type: Article

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