On the advantage of being left-handed in volleyball: Further evidence of the specificity of skilled visual perception

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 446-453

  Loffing, Florian ^a   Schorer, Jörg ^b   Hagemann, Norbert ^a   Baker, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Handedness; Perceptual expertise; Perceptual frequency effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VISION; VOLLEYBALL;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOLLEYBALL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857588420     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0252-1     Document Type: Article

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