An especial skill: Support for a learned parameters hypothesis

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-60

  Breslin, Gavin ^a   Hodges, Nicola J ^b   Kennedy, Rodney ^a   Hanlon, Michael ^a   Williams, A Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Human Kinetics 210   (Canada)

^c School of Sport and Excercise Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Motor learning; Practice; Schema theory; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASKETBALL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASKETBALL; BIOMECHANICS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOFTWARE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); WEIGHT PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952238571     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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