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Farran, Emily K.; Courbois, Yannick; Van Herwegen, Jo; Blades, Mark – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The ability to learn a route through a virtual environment was assessed in 19 older children and adults with Williams syndrome (WS) and 40 typically developing (TD) children aged 6-9 years. In addition to comparing route-learning ability across groups, we were interested in whether participants show an adult-like differentiation between "useful"…
Descriptors: Evidence, Mental Retardation, Virtual Classrooms, Nonverbal Ability
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de Oliveira, Rita Ferraz; Oudejans, Raoul R. D.; Beek, Peter J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
For successful basketball shooting, players must use information about the location of the basket relative to themselves. In this study, the authors examined to what extent shooting performance depends on the absolute distance to the basket ("m") and the angle of elevation (alpha). In Experiment 1, expert players took jump shots under different…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Athletes, Spatial Ability, Physics