Rob

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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Article Review: Can Adaptive Constraints Aid Motor Learning?

Can Physical Tools that Adapt their Shape based on a Learner’s Performance Help in Motor Skill Training?

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345 – Journal Club #30: An Ecological Approach to Youth Sports Coaching & Physical Education

345 I was joined by Mark O’Sullivan, James Rudd, Rich White and Michael Zweifel for a really interesting discussion about applying ecological dynamics to youth sports coaching and physical literacy.Download link Articles:Conceptualizing physical literacy within an ecological dynamics framework More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASU Web pagePodcast…

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Article Review: Acquiring a new skill with pain

Assessment of motor skill accuracy and coordination variability after application of local and remote experimental pain

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344 – Co-Adaptation: How Can Pitchers Exploit the Perceptual-Motor Strategies used by Hitters?

344 A discussion with Randy Sullivan from Florida Baseball Ranch and several professional baseball pitching coaches. Our topic was co-adaptation in baseball, looking at how a pitcher might exploit the perceptual-motor strategies that hitters are using against them.Download link More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASU Web pagePodcast…

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Article Review: Affordance-based control in soccer goalkeeping

Goalkeeping in the soccer penalty kick: The dive is coordinated to the kicker’s non-kicking leg placement, irrespective of time constraints

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343 – Journal Club #29: Exploring the Ecological Approach to Skill Acquisition

343 What are some of the misconceptions about it and how might we improve its understanding and application?Download link More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASU Web pagePodcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)Email: robgray@asu.edu Support the podcast and receive bonus content

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Article Review: Why “Implicit Learning” is not an Ecological Approach

The effect of explicit, implicit and analogy instruction on decision making skill for novices, under stress

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342 – A Constraints-Based, Grand Unifying Theory of Sports Performance

342 Can we use Newell’s constraints framework to unify the typically siloed subdisciplines (for example, skill acquisition, S&C and biomechanics) within sports science? A look at Paul Glazier’s Grand Unifying Theory of sports performance?Download link Articles:Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Sports Performance More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my…

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