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September 2008 Volume 11 No 9

To find out what makes professional athletes different from the rest of us, Aglioti and colleagues asked whether they react differently when viewing other athletes performing. In this issue, they report that elite basketball players are better at predicting whether a basketball will land in the basket and have higher transcranial magnetic stimulationevoked motor potentials when the ball misses its mark.
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