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Joint Attention in Team Sport

GORDON BIRSE

Topoi, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 361 - 372

Swansea University Author: GORDON BIRSE

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s11245-024-10036-9

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This paper explores how the phenomenon of Joint Attention (JA) drives certain core features of team sport and how sport illuminates the nature of JA. In JA, two or more agents focus on the same object in mutual awareness that the content of their experience is thus shared. JA is essential to joint s...

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ISSN: 0167-7411 1572-8749
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