Imagery intervention in open and closed tennis motor skill performance

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 458-468

  Coelho, Ricardo Weigert ^a,b   De Campos, Wagner ^a   Da Silva, Sergio Gregorio ^a   Okazaki, Fabio Heitor Alves ^a   Keller, Birgit ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

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EID: 36348935192     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.105.2.458-468     Document Type: Article

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