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S L Goode1, H J Meeuwsen, R A Magill
1Department of Kinesiology, Texas Woman's University, Denton 76204, USA.
Abstract:
Verbal reports were collected from experienced performers during acquisition trials of a novel throwing task and summarized as cognitive performance strategies. These strategies were incorporated in the practice regimen of 8 novices with no sport experience who learned the same task. A control group of 8 novices practiced the task without the experts' cognitive performance strategies. The performance of the novices who used the strategies was similar to that of the experts and significantly better than the performance of the control novices.
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