Attentional Focus Effects as a Function of Task Difficulty

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

• Publication date

  2007-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/02701367.2007.10599423PMID 17679499
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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