A multiple-cue learning approach as the basis for understanding and improving soccer referees' decision making

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue , 2009, Pages 151-158

  Plessner, Henning ^a   Schweizer, Geoffrey ^b   Brand, Ralf ^b   O'Hare, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

multiple cue learning; soccer referees; social judgment theory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ASSOCIATION; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MISCONDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL LEARNING; SPORT; TRAINING;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PROBABILITY LEARNING; RISK-TAKING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 65649148254     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)01313-2     Document Type: Review

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