314 A look at recent studies investigating the use of situational probabilities by athletes? Does knowing your opponent’s tendencies make you more susceptible to deception? Does it matter whether you are given probability info about your opponent or acquire it yourself? How can we account for the use of this type of information in an…
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The latest in skill acquisition and performance research from perceptonaction.com -Where should a soccer player look when they are running up to strike the ball during a free kick? This question was investigated in a new study published in the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching. Consistent with the typical findings on the quiet…
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The latest in skill acquisition and performance research from perceptonaction.com -Can one session of differential learning improve visuo-motor performance? In a new study published in the European Journal of Sport Science, Serrien and colleagues examined this question using a task which involved turning lights presented in periphery off by hitting them with your hand. Kind…
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The latest in skill acquisition and performance research from perceptonaction.com What are the implications for skill acquisition and coaching if we accept that performers are complex adaptative systems? In a new opinion article posted on Sports Medicine, Pol and colleagues consider this interesting question. They emphasize that athletes and teams are co-adaptive and develop functional…
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The latest in skill acquisition and performance research from perceptonaction.com -Can perceptual-motor training be used to reduce the chance at athlete will get a knee injury playing sports? In a paper from the recent International Society of Biomechanics in Sport conference, Tidman and colleagues compared two types of training to a control group using a…
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The latest in skill acquisition and performance research from perceptonaction.com -An often overlooked aspect of skilled performance is the intersectionality between gender and motor learning. One way in which this manifests itself is stereotype threat which occurs when a common stereotype like “girls are bad at math” or “men don’t putt as well” impairs learning….
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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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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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The latest in skill acquisition and performance research from perceptonaction.com -Can Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Improve Athletic Performance? Your heart rate variability is essentially a measure of the consistency of timing from beat to beat. I think most people are surprised to learn that a healthy heart doesn’t beat with perfect regularity like a metronome….
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Can viewing images of cute baby animals help you learn? In a very uh, unique, new study published by Yoshikawa and colleagues in the Frontiers in Psychology, participants learned a task that required them to use tweezers to remove small pieces from a game board..so basically playing the game Operation. Prior to performing this task,…
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