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Direct linkFajen, Brett R.; Devaney, Michael C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
The authors investigated the role of perceptual attunement in an emergency braking task in which participants waited until the last possible moment to slam on the brakes. Effects of the size of the approached object and initial speed on the initiation of braking were used to identify the optical variables on which participants relied at various…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Effect Size, Experiments, Motion
Lobjois, Regis; Benguigui, Nicolas; Bertsch, Jean – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether playing a specific ball sport, such as tennis, could maintain the coincidence-timing (CT) performance of older adults at a similar level to that of younger ones. To address this question, tennis players and nonplayers of three different age ranges (ages 20-30, 60-70, and 70-80 years)…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Racquet Sports, Older Adults, Young Adults
