Human face structure correlates with professional baseball performance: Insights from professional Japanese baseball players

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tsujimura, Hikaru ^a   Banissy, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achievement; Face structure; Facial features; Performance; Sports

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPORT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; FACE; HUMAN; JAPAN;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; FACE; HUMANS; JAPAN;

EID: 84878204574     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0140     Document Type: Article

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