Field of vision influences sensory-motor control of skilled and less-skilled dart players

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 542-550

  Rienhoff, Rebecca ^a   Baker, Joseph ^b   Fischer, Lennart ^a   Strauss, Bernd ^a   Schorer, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b York University   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expertise; Eyetracking; Information processing; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867622001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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