A preliminary investigation regarding the effect of tennis grunting: Does white noise during a tennis shot have a negative impact on shot perception?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Sinnett, Scott ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENNIS; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TENNIS;

EID: 78049303085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013148     Document Type: Article

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