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Biological motion can hardly be imitated, starting from how a person observes and learns motor behaviour. We recorded eye movements of 13 female ball games athletes and 13 age-matched controls observing videos of unfamiliar sports. The athletes are better at alternating between faster and slower eye movement modalities. They initially use longer but fewer fixations than the non-athletes.
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Paeglis, R., Spunde, A., Klavinsh, A., Vilkausha, L., Lacis, I. (2008). Eye Kinematics of Athletes in Non-Familiar Sports Situations. In: Katashev, A., Dekhtyar, Y., Spigulis, J. (eds) 14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69367-3_40
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