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Domain specificity,task specificity, and expert performance

A Mark Williams¹, Paul Ward, Julian D Ward

¹Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. m.williams@ljmu.ac.uk

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