Sprint starts and the minimum auditory reaction time

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-86

  Pain, Matthew T G ^a   Hibbs, Angela ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Athletics; Neurophysiology; Reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORCE TRANSDUCER; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; REACTION TIME; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REFLEX; RUNNING; SPORT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RUNNING; TRANSDUCERS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 37849187504     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410600718004     Document Type: Article

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