Shedding some light on catching in the dark: Perceptual mechanisms for catching fly balls

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 531-542

  Oudejans, Raôul R D ^a   Michaels, Claire F ^a   Bakker, Frank C ^a   Davids, Keith ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; RETINA;

ADULT; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LIGHT; MOTION PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; RETINA;

EID: 0033114048     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.25.2.531     Document Type: Article

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