Perceiving and moving in sports and other high-pressure contexts

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue , 2009, Pages 35-48

  Oudejans, Raôul R D ^a   Nieuwenhuys, Arne ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

affordances; attentional control theory; ecological psychology; training with anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; CLIMBING; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; THEORY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; RISK-TAKING; SPORTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 65649133023     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)01304-1     Document Type: Review

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