Attentional mechanisms in sports via brain-electrical event-related potentials

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 727-738

  Hack, Johannes ^a   Memmert, Daniel ^b   Rupp, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focus of attention; Referee; Selective attention; Top down and bottom up processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPORTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 72149100173     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2009.10599614     Document Type: Article

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