The resilience of natural interceptive actions to refractive blur

Human Movement Science

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 386-400

  Mann, David L ^a,b   Abernethy, Bruce ^c,d   Farrow, Damian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact lenses; Cricket; Myopia; Sport; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BLURRED VISION; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MYOPIA; REFRACTION ERROR; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPORTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952889859     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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