Standing Long Jump Performance Is Enhanced When Using an External as Well as Holistic Focus of Attention: A Kinematic Study [PDF]
SensorsStanding long jump is known as one of the important skills in the success of athletes in most sports. In addition, one of the most effective factors that can affect standing long jump distance and kinematics is the focus of attention used by the athlete.
Esmaeel Saemi +4 more
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External focus of attention enhances arm velocities during volleyball spike in young female players [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different volleyball-specific attentional focus instructions on arm velocities of a volleyball spike in young female volleyball players using the Statistical Parametric Mapping method.
Lukáš Slovák +7 more
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Focus of attention in discourse [PDF]
, 2004 The four Topic statuses recognized in FG ("Given", "Sub", "Resumed" and "New") appear to subsume the distinction in Columbia School linguistics (CS) between "Focus" (a two-level set of instructions to the addressee to treat the content of the constituent so-marked as needing or as already assuming a high(er) or a low(er) degree of attention ...
Cornish, Francis
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Putting Attention on the Spot in Coaching: Shifting to an External Focus of Attention With Imagery Techniques to Improve Basketball Free-Throw Shooting Performance [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Attentional focus is an area that has garnered considerable attention in the sport psychology and motor performance literature. This is unsurprising given that attentional focus has been directly linked to performance outcomes and is susceptible to ...
Kyle R. Milley +2 more
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The Time-Course of the Last-Presented Benefit in Working Memory: Shifts in the Content of the Focus of Attention [PDF]
Journal of Cognition, 2022 Working memory is a cognitive system responsible for maintaining information. It is often assumed to contain different states of accessibility of information, which is highest for an item held in the focus of attention.
Beatrice Valentini +2 more
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Defining the Focus of Attention: Effects of Attention on Perceived Exertion and Fatigue.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 This manuscript presents two experiments designed to explore the effects of attention on perceived exertion and time to failure in a fatiguing athletic task. There were two major motivating factors for these experiments.
Keith eLohse, David E Sherwood
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The Effect of holistic focus of attention on golf putting in expert [PDF]
Cheyuk gwahag yeon-gu, 2020 Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the holistic focus of attention(H-FOA), presented as an alternative attention concept, to explore effective attention focus for the skilled performer. Methods KPGA's experts (N = 24)
Seakhwan Shin, Taegyong Kwon
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Effect of social-comparative feedback and the focus of attention on the performance of targeting skills in children with ADHD [PDF]
روانشناسی و روانپزشکی شناخت, 2022 Introduction: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects 3-7% of children. Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of deductive-social feedback and attention instructions on the performance of ...
Hamid Mohammadi +3 more
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Importance-Driven Focus of Attention [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2006 This paper introduces a concept for automatic focusing on features within a volumetric data set. The user selects a focus, i.e., object of interest, from a set of pre-defined features. Our system automatically determines the most expressive view on this feature. A characteristic viewpoint is estimated by a novel information-theoretic framework which is
Ivan, Viola +3 more
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The focus of attention problem [PDF]
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2010 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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