The Perception & Action Podcast

..where I discuss how psychological research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition & designing technologies.

Latest Content

529 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 3 and 4 (JC47)

529 I am joined by Andrew Wilson to discuss chapters 3 and 4 from Michael Turvey’s book “Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective”Download link Links:https://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Perception-Perspective-Michael-Turvey/dp/1138335266 More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe...

Play Episode

Practicing the “Wrong Way” Reduces Anxiety

Following up on my new paper that just came out today, showing the skill acquisition/performance benefits of deliberating practicing undesired outcomes, I wanted to share some data I collected...

Play Episode

528 – Assessing Progress in the Ecological Approach: The Method of Progessive Constraints

528 How can we assess and measure an athlete’s progress when you use an ecological approach? How do we know whether what we are doing is working or not?...

Play Episode

527 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 1 and 2 (JC46)

527 On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson to discuss chapters 1 and 2 from Michael Turvey’s book “Lectures on Perception: An...

Play Episode

526 – Why are Balance Bikes More Effective for Learning to Ride than Bikes with Training Wheels? A Variability Analysis

526 Do Balance Bikes lead to more functional variability in postural control when learning to ride a bike? Do they help support the transition from freezing to freeing degrees...

Play Episode

Is the batter’s eye in Seattle an Ames room? A perceptual analysis of the challenge of hitting in T-Mobile park

As documented in this great recent article by Mike Petriello, Seattle’s T Mobile Park is the most difficult place to hit in all of baseball. In fact, it is...

Play Episode