Visual behavior and perception of trajectories of moving objects with visual occlusion

Francisco J Moreno1, Vicente Luis, Francisco Salgado

  • 1Sport Sciences Faculty, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain. fjmoreno@unex.es

Perceptual and Motor Skills
|December 15, 2005
PubMed

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