Baseball - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The effects of domain knowledge on metacomprehension accuracy.

29 Sep 2009 In the present research, we examined the relationship between readers' domain knowledge and their ability to judge their comprehension of novel domain-related material. Participants with varying degrees of baseball knowledge read five texts on ... Read more...

A model of motor inhibition for a complex skill: baseball batting.

30 May 2009 The ability to inhibit an ongoing action in response to a signal from the environment is important for many perceptual-motor actions. This paper examines a particular example of this behavior: attempting to inhibit or "check" a swing in baseball ... Read more...

Transfer of high domain knowledge to a similar domain.

30 Dec 2008 Researchers have widely examined domain knowledge yet rarely investigate the transfer of knowledge from one domain to another. This study sought to fill in the literature gap concerning the impact of domain knowledge on memory in a similar ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Baseball - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The effects of domain knowledge on metacomprehension accuracy. 29 Sep 2009
• A model of motor inhibition for a complex skill: baseball batting. 30 May 2009
• Transfer of high domain knowledge to a similar domain. 30 Dec 2008
• Relationship between decision-making self-efficacy, task self-efficacy, and the performance of a sport skill. 30 Mar 2008
• Sport-specific decision-making in a Go/NoGo reaction task: difference among nonathletes and baseball and basketball players. 30 Jan 2008
• Assessing pitcher and catcher influences on base stealing in Major League Baseball. 30 Dec 2007
• Performance of older versus younger brothers: data from major league baseball. 29 Nov 2007
• Effects of stimulus-response compatibility in mediating expert performance in baseball players. 10 Nov 2007
• Perception-action coupling and anticipatory performance in baseball batting. 30 Aug 2007
• On-task distractors associated with totball baseball games: a preliminary study. 30 Jul 2007
• Lefties are still a little shorter. 30 Mar 2007
• Symbolic significance of initials on longevity. 30 Jan 2007
• A unified fielder theory for interception of moving objects either above or below the horizon. 29 Sep 2006
• When the Red Sox shocked the Yankees: comparing negative and positive memories. 29 Sep 2006
• Motion by nearby players biases perception but not action in judgments of baseball destination. 29 Sep 2006
• The "birthday blues" in a sample of major league baseball players' suicides. 29 Sep 2005
• Batting last as a home advantage factor in men's NCAA tournament baseball. 29 Jun 2005
• Differences in saccadic latency and express saccades between skilled and novice ball players in tracking predictable and unpredictable targets at two visual angles. 30 May 2005
• A controlled study on batted ball speed and available pitcher reaction time in slowpitch softball. 30 Mar 2005
• Smokeless tobacco use among professional baseball players: survey results, 1998 to 2003. 30 Jan 2005

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Technical information about 'Baseball'

Definition: A competitive nine-member team sport including softball.

Descriptor UI: D001484

Alternative terms: Baseball; Softball; Softballs; Baseballs;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; injuries; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics; physiology;

Tree Number: I03.450.642.845.110;

History Note: 90(77); was see under SPORTS 1977-89

Technical Notes: /inj: coord IM with specific inj (IM); /physiol permitted; Manual 30.15.1