Ironic effects and final target fixation in a penalty shooting task

Human Movement Science

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 277-288

  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

Football; Gaze behavior; Ironic performance; Self instruction; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FOOTBALL; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTITUDE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; PUNISHMENT; SOCCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950340892     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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