Hitting is Contagious: Experience and Action Induction

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-59

  Gray, Rob ^a   Beilock, Sian L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; Induction; Mirror neurons; Motor control; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASEBALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953713659     PISSN: 1076898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022846     Document Type: Article

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