Latency of prosaccades and antisaccades in professional shooters

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 388-394

  Morrillo, Micaela ^a   Di Russo, Francesco ^a,b   Pitzalis, Sabrina ^b   Spinelli, Donatella ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Athletes; Eye movement; Gap; Motor experience; Overlap; TRS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TRAINING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33144457138     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000185661.01802.67     Document Type: Article

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