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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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340 – Educating a Coach’s Attention & the Use of Diagnostic Constraints

340 How do good coaches pick up information while observing an athlete, that can be used to guide skill acquisition? How can coaches better educate their attention to information that will better support search and self- organization of movement? A look at perceptual expertise in coaching.Download link Articles:Visual Expertise in the Perception of ActionCoaches’ internal…

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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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339 – Journal Club #28: Ingold’s “Perception of the Environment” Part I

339 A look at the first section of Tim Ingold’s book “The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill”. Topics include education of attention, the role of culture in sports, attending vs controlling one’s environment, and showing vs telling as a coach.Download link The Perception of the Environment More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe…

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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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338 – Journal Club #27: Positively Advancing the Coaching Science Discussion in 2021

338A follow up to some of the issues we discussed in Journal Club #25. How can move beyond the arguing about methods and theories?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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337 – An Ecological, Enactive Account of the Use of Mental Imagery in Sports

337 How can we understand the use of mental imagery in sports from an ecological perspective? How can perception be direct in imagery if there is no stimulus present? How does it relate to skilled intentionality?  Download link Articles:Reconceiving representation-hungry cognition: an ecological-enactive proposalEffect of mental imagery on realizing affordances Article Review: “Contextualized Skill Acquisition…

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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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336 – Strong Anticipation: Coordinating with the Future without Predicting It

336 Can we “anticipate” the future without predicting it? Are delays in our perceptual-motor system flaws that we must compensate for or actually advantageous? A look at the concept of strong anticipation.Download link Articles: On Strong AnticipationAnticipating synchronization as an alternative to the internal modelLectures on Perception (Chapter 26) More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy…

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