Implicit knowledge and motor skill: What people who know how to catch don't know

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-76

  Reed, Nick ^a   McLeod, Peter ^a   Dienes, Zoltan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ball catching; Implicit knowledge; Knowing how; Procedural knowledge; Subjective measures; Unconscious control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77649234899     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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