Month: April 2021

Article Review: Attentional focus and adaptation to instructional constraints

Skilled swimmers maintain performance stability under changing attentional focus constraints

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349 – Movement Reversals & what they tell us about Motor Control

349 Why do we sometimes start moving in completely the wrong direction before changing course when intercepting a moving object? Under what conditions do these “movement reversals” occur and what do they tells us about the use of predictive vs prospective control?  Download link Articles:Movement reversals in ball catchingVisual guidance of intercepting a moving target…

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Article Review: Augmenting information for learning by changing equipment

Hitting weighted baseball enhances the experience of bat–ball contacts

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348 – The Color of Noise in Motor Control

348 A look at 1/f or pink noise in the motor system. How can it be used as a metric to understand the coordination of degrees of freedom in movement? How does it change when learning a new skill?  Download link Articles:Contemporary theories of 1/f noise in motor control1/f scaling in movement time changes with…

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347 – Journal Club #31: Using Observation and Imagery in Coaching

347 I was joined by Adam Bruton, Dan Eaves and David Wright from the Research on Imagery and Observation (or Rio group) for a really interesting discussion about applying these methods in coaching. How can we use imagery to add variability to demonstrations by coaches?Download link Links:https://riogroup.weebly.com/ More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate…

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Article Review: An ecological account of interference when learning motor tasks

Interference of balance tasks revisited: Consolidation of a novel balance task is impaired by subsequent learning of a similar postural task

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346 – How Do Action Capabilities Constrain Affordance Perception & Decision Making

346 How do an athlete’s action capabilities (e.g. their speed, power, movement time) influence their abilities to perceive affordances and make decisions? How well calibrated are these things? Can we improve perception and decision making by increasing action capacity?Download link Articles:But I can’t pass that far! The influence of motor skill on decision makingThe influence…

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