Transfer of pattern recall skills may contribute to the development of sport expertise

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 705-718

  Abernethy, Bruce ^a,b   Baker, Joseph ^a,c   Côté, Jean ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASKETBALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SKILL; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 26444610836     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1102     Document Type: Article

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