The dark side of visual awareness in sport: Inattentional blindness in a real-world basketball task

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1327-1337

  Furley, Philip ^a   Memmert, Daniel ^a   Heller, Christian ^b  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; BASKETBALL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; BASKETBALL; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957658954     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.5.1327     Document Type: Article

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