Episode Archives
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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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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347 – Journal Club #31: Using Observation and Imagery in Coaching
347 I was joined by Adam Bruton, Dan Eaves and David Wright from the Research on Imagery and Observation (or Rio group) for a really interesting discussion about applying these methods in coaching. How can we use imagery to add variability to demonstrations by coaches?Download link Links:https://riogroup.weebly.com/ More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate…
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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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