What exactly is acquired during skill acquisition?

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 7-23

  Araújo, Duarte ^a   Davids, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

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