Benefits of an external focus of attention: Common coding or conscious processing?

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-99

  Poolton, Jamie M ^a   Maxwell, J P ^a   Masters, R S W ^a   Raab, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Explicit; Golf putting; Implicit; Knowledge; Motor learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; GOLF; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 31344460785     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410500130854     Document Type: Article

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