The advantage of being left-handed in interactive sports

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1641-1648

  Hagemann, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TENNIS;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TENNIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 73449146034     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.7.1641     Document Type: Article

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