Neural bases of a specific strategy for visuospatial processing in rugby players

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1857-1862

  Sekiguchi, Atsushi ^a   Yokoyama, Satoru ^a   Kasahara, Satoshi ^b   Yomogida, Yukihito ^a,c   Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Ogawa, Takeshi ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Niwa, Shin Ichi ^b   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

birds eye view; FMRI; mental rotation; Rugby players; Visuospatial processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BRAIN MAPPING; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISION;

ADULT; ATHLETES; BRAIN MAPPING; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052965258     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31821920f3     Document Type: Article

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