Conscious and effortful or effortless and automatic: A practice/performance paradox in motor learning

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 315-324

  Oliveira, Flavio T P ^a   Goodman, David ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 5644249506     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.99.1.315-324     Document Type: Article

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