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Research Articles

Table Tennis Experts Outperform Novices in a Demanding Cognitive-Motor Dual-Task Situation

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Pages 204-213 | Received 18 Nov 2018, Accepted 27 Feb 2019, Published online: 15 Apr 2019

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