PodEpisodes

387 – Task Specific Devices & Soft Assemblies

387 How do the components of our motor system flexibly reorganize in response to task demands? How do we use information about performance errors (knowledge of results) to search for new organizations? Do these processes involve the use of hard-wired motor programs or softly assembled devices specific to the constraints associated with the individual and…

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386 – Decision Making III: Emergent, Mental Model Driven or Both?

386 A look at the recent systematic review of decision making in sports. Is decision making best explained as being emergent, mental model driven or both? Is this an example of integrating direct and indirect theories of perception?Download link Articles:Understanding a Player’s Decision-Making Process in Team Sports: A Systematic Review of Empirical EvidenceContinuous hitting movements…

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385 – A 10 Commandments for an Ecological Approach to Skill

385 A look Michaels and Palatinus’ 10 commandments for ecological psychology and their implications for skill acquisition research and coaching. Why are the principles of the ecological approach a package deal?Download link Articles:A Ten Commandments for Ecological Psychology More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASU Web pagePodcast Facebook…

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384– Learning to Move with Pain: Affordances & Constraints

384 How does pain shape learning and re-learning to move? How does it change the field of affordances available to an athlete? What is the best way to treat it?Download link Articles:Pain and the field of affordances: an enactive approach to acute and chronic pain More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs…

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383 – Why I Switched Sides to the Ecological Approach

383 Why did I make the switch in my career from thinking about skill as an indirect, predictive process involving internal models to direct perception, ecological dynamics?  Why do I think the latter is a better approach to understanding and developing skill?  Download link Articles:“Markov at the Bat”: A Model of Cognitive Processing in Baseball…

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382– Online vs Offline Information VS Direct vs Indirect Perception

382 What is the difference between using online vs offline information to our control our actions on the one hand and the dichotomy between direct vs indirect perception, on the other? How have these been used incorrectly in many attempts to integrate skill acquisition approaches? An attempt at some clarification.Download link Articles:/Links:Expert Anticipatory Skill in…

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381– An Ecological Approach to Volleyball Coaching & Practice Design

381 How can we apply an ecological approach to coaching volleyball? Are the ideas of “repetition without repetition” and motor synergies supported by research on this sport? What has research shown about the benefits of using the CLA and differential learning in volleyball?Download link https://youtu.be/c_yWNTxzaVE https://youtu.be/oULzGe8Lnf4 More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page…

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380 – Interview with Brian Bushway & Tom Izdebski from Acoustic Athletics, Learning to Use Auditory Information in Sports

380 Can athletes learn to use the auditory information available in a sports environment to improve their performance? Can we see all around us with sound?  For those that aren’t familiar with his story, Brian Bushway started to go blind when he was 14 and now has no response to light at all. But amazingly…

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379 – Journal Club #36: Making Isolated, At-Home Training More Representative

379 How can we make isolated, at home sports training more representative? A discussion with Ryan and Brett from SwitchedOn Training.Download link Links:https://www.switchedontrainingapp.com/ 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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378 – Achieving Balance (and Integration?) in Skill Acquisition Research & Theory

378 A few updates on the first month of my book release. And how do we achieve balance in looking at the different theories of skill acquisition? Is it possible to integrate the different approaches?Download link Articles:Two visual systems and two theories of perception: An attempt to reconcile the constructivist and ecological approachesInformation Processing and…

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