Is an external focus of attention more beneficial than an internal focus to ball catching in children?
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Is an External Focus of Attention More Beneficial than an Internal Focus to Ball Catching in Children?
The performance benefits of adopting an external relative to an internal focus of attention have been demonstrated for many different targeting and balance tasks. No study has examined attentional focus effects for interceptive motor skills. Also, the majority of studies have used adult participants. In this study, children (mean age: 8.75 years, SD=0.79; 15 girls, 9 boys) were required to catc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Kinesiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1848-638X,1331-1441
DOI: 10.26582/k.49.2.2