Especial skills: Specificity embedded within generality

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 723-736

  Keetch, Katherine M ^a   Lee, Timothy D ^a   Schmidt, Richard A ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Human Performance Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Motor learning; Practice specificity; Schema theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349113047     PISSN: 08952779     EISSN: 15432904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.30.6.723     Document Type: Article

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