Effects of cricket ball colour and illuminance levels on catching behaviour in professional cricketers

Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1681-1688

  Scott, Karen ^a   Kingsbury, Damian ^a   Bennett, Simon ^a   Davids, Keith ^a   Langley, Mark ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ball colour; Cricket; Illuminance; Movement initiation time; Slip catching

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COLOR; LIGHT; VISION;

CRICKET; ILLUMINANCE LEVELS;

SPORTS MEDICINE;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; SIMULATION; SPORT; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033788001     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401300750004087     Document Type: Article

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