Discovery learning in sports: Implicit or explicit processes?

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 413-430

  Raab, Markus ^a,b   Masters, Rich S W ^c   Maxwell, Jon ^c   Arnold, Andre ^a   Schlapkohl, Nele ^a,b   Poolton, Jamie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Decision making; Discovery learning; Explicit learning; Implicit learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149083572     PISSN: 1612197X     EISSN: 1557251X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1612197X.2009.9671917     Document Type: Article

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