Quiet eye training in a visuomotor control task

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1042-1049

  Causer, Joe ^a   Holmes, Paul S ^b   Williams, Andrew Mark ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eye movements; Gaze behavior; kinematics; shotgun; visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIREARM; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; FEEDBACK; FIREARMS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SPORTS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958006513     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182035de6     Document Type: Article

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