Motor and visual imagery in sports

Multisensory Imagery

Volumn 9781461458791, Issue , 2013, Pages 319-341

  Munzert, Jörn ^a   Lorey, Britta ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Confidence; Imagery perspective; Imagery use; Mental chronometry; Mental practice; Skill acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949175310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5879-1_17     Document Type: Chapter

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