Mental Rotation Performance in Male Soccer Players

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Jansen, Petra ^a   Lehmann, Jennifer ^a   van Doren, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL ROTATION; MENTAL ROTATION TASK; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RESPONSE TIME; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SOCCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868113147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048620     Document Type: Article

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