External focus facilitates cognitive stability and promotes motor performance of an interceptive task in children.
Recent evidence suggests that one of the benefits of external focus is facilitating task focus. To this extent, an external focus might influence cognitive function. To help elucidate the underlying mechanisms of attentional focus instructions, the aim of this study was to examine the influence of a...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 1024 - 1041 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2023
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