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353 – Article Review: Variability of Practice as an Injury Prevention Mechanism

353 A look at a new study comparing the effects of the CLA, differential learning, and prescriptive training on risk factors for ACL injury.Download link Articles:Motor learning methods that induce high practice variability reduce kinematic and kinetic risk factors of non-contact ACL injury More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my…

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Implementing a Constraints Led Approach (CLA) to Coaching in VR

My talk from the ESAN 2021 Pre-conference workshop: Developing perceptual cognitive expertise: Considerations for the role for virtual immersive technology

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352 – Top Research Articles of 2021 (So Far)

352A look at some of the most interesting research articles from 2021 so far. How do constraints shape skill acquisition? How can we interpret some of the classic problems in perception from an ecological point of view? What have we learned about the search for optimal movement solutions?Download link Youtube Playlist Link: More information:Subscribe in…

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Video: The Use of Contextual Info in Sports Re-Conceptualized as Calibration & Education of Intention

My presentation from ESAN 2021

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351 – Perceptual-Motor Styles

351 Why do many individuals have a distinctive manner of performing a motor action (aka a perceptual-motor style)? How can we determine whether a particular style is functional? How do styles change with development, sports training and through rehabilitation?Download link Articles:Perceptual‑motor stylesA whole body characterization of individual strategies, gender differences, and common styles in overarm…

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350 – Movement Sonification to Aid Motor Learning

350 How can mapping a movement parameter into sound be used to aid motor learning? How can it be used to help stablilize movement patterns or alternatively encourage a learner to be creative and  look for new ones?Download link Articles:Sonification Approaches in Sports in the past Decade: A Literature ReviewA Perspective on Implementing Movement Sonification…

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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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