Going the distance: Spatial scale of athletic experience affects the accuracy of path integration

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-98

  Smith, Alastair D ^c   Howard, Christina J ^a   Alcock, Niall ^b   Cater, Kirsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Merchant Venturers Building ^*

Author keywords

Athletes; Idiothetic; Path integration; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY MOVEMENT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MARTIAL ARTS; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPORTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957670378     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2398-9     Document Type: Article

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