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NEW Video Article Review: Is the Role of Expectancy & Choice in Motor Learning Being Oversold?

Different task success criteria affect expectancies of success but do not improve golf putting performance

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NEW Video Article Review: Towards Individualized Optimization of Movement Coordination?

Optimising the front foot contact phase of the cricket fast bowling action

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“Roots not Branches”: Why the Ecological Approach is not Just a Set of Alternative Training Methods

Video: The Generalized Motor Program (GMP) & Schema Theory

A Schema Theory of Discrete Motor Skill Learning

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NEW Video Article Review: Donor Sports, Dance & Coordinating Degrees of Freedom

Dance training improves the CNS’s ability to utilize the redundant degrees of freedom of the whole body

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NEW Video Article Review: Equipment scaling, variability & information for learning

Children’s coordination of the sweet spot when striking a forehand is shaped by the equipment used

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Article Review: An adversarial exploration into the compatibility of IP and ecological theories

Information Processing and Constraints-based Views of Skill Acquisition: Divergent or Complementary?

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Direct Learning Resource Page

A new resource page with infographic, definition of key terms, and links to resources for Jacobs and Michaels (2007) Direct Learning theory. Direct Learning

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Article Review: A proposed reconciliation of ecological & information processing theories of perception-action

Two visual systems and two theories of perception: An attempt to reconcile the constructivist and ecological approaches

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Article Review: Contextualized Skill Acquisition Research – Dexterity development in Brazil soccer

Malandragem and Ginga: Socio-cultural constraints on the development of expertise and skills in Brazilian football

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