Perceiving action boundaries: Learning effects in perceiving maximum jumping-reach affordances

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1110-1119

  Ramenzoni, Verónica C ^a   Davis, Tehran J ^a   Riley, Michael A ^a   Shockley, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; VISION;

APTITUDE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955294288     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.4.1110     Document Type: Article

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