Flexibility of attention discriminated between levels of performance by bus drivers and pilots. The present pilot study investigated the extent to which flexibility of attention discriminated between levels of performance on tasks involving coincident anticipation. A group of elite performers in fast-ball-games made fewer errors after switching attention than did a group of good performers.
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