Day: July 28, 2020

Big (virtual) hands you know you’re the one, musical pressure, CLA for golf

The latest in skill acquisition and performance research from perceptonaction.com -What happens when we use virtual reality to give you an abnormally large hand or foot? In a really interesting new chapter, Stefanucci and colleagues consider the topic of embodiment in virtual environments. Among the work they discuss, are studies that have given participants altered…

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313 – Do Explicit Strategies for Altering Technique Interfere with Implicit Motor Learning?

313How do implicit and explicit learning interact with each other? If a coach gives an athlete an explicit strategy for correcting their technique is it going to hinder implicit learning? What does this say about whether it is a good idea for a coach to sample from different theoretical approaches and philosophies in practice design?Download…

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