Visual perception in fencing: Do the eye movements of fencers represent their information pickup?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2204-2214

  Hagemann, Norbert ^a   Schorer, Jörg ^b   Cañal Bruland, Rouwen ^c   Lotz, Simone ^d   Strauss, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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EID: 78649708665     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196695     Document Type: Article

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