Performing under pressure: Gaze control, decision making and shooting performance of elite and rookie police officers

Human Movement Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-117

  Vickers, Joan N ^a   Lewinski, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise; Firearms; Officer involved shooting; Quiet eye; Weapon focus

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FIREARM; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POLICE; TIME; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CRIME; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FIREARMS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; POLICE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84856619099     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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