Effect of different external attention of focus instruction on learning of golf putting skill

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 662-670

  Shafizadeh, Mohsen ^a   McMorris, Terry ^b   Sproule, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; EDUCATION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPORT;

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GOLF; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80855150867     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: 1558688X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/05.23.25.PMS.113.5.662-670     Document Type: Article

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