Movement models from sports provide representative task constraints for studying adaptive behavior in human movement systems

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-95

  Davids, Keith ^a,e   Button, Chris ^a   Araújo, Duarte ^b,f,g   Renshaw, Ian ^c   Hristovski, Robert ^d,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^d University of Sts Cyril and Methodius   (Macedonia)

^e QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^f European Network of Young Specialists in Sport Psychology   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^h SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Constraints; Degrees of freedom; Movement coordination and control; Perception and action; Representative design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646472023     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971230601400103     Document Type: Article

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