Unwanted effects in aiming actions: The relationship between gaze behavior and performance in a golf putting task

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 628-635

  Binsch, Olaf ^a   Oudejans, Raôul R D ^a   Bakker, Frank C ^a   Savelsbergh, Geert J P ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Golf putting; Ironic effects; Overcompensation; Self instruction; Visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449096489     PISSN: 14690292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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