The Perception & Action Podcast
..where I discuss how psychological research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition & designing technologies.
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526 – Why are Balance Bikes More Effective for Learning to Ride than Bikes with Training Wheels? A Variability Analysis
526 Do Balance Bikes lead to more functional variability in postural control when learning to ride a bike? Do they help support the transition from freezing to freeing degrees...
Is the batter’s eye in Seattle an Ames room? A perceptual analysis of the challenge of hitting in T-Mobile park
As documented in this great recent article by Mike Petriello, Seattle’s T Mobile Park is the most difficult place to hit in all of baseball. In fact, it is...
525 – Variability of Practice & Education of Attention
525 Does adding more variability to practice conditions aid the process of education of attention? Can we predict the trajectory through informational space that occurs during learning?Download link Articles:The...
524 – Is it better to give a specific performance outcome target or one based on perception of effort?
524 A look at a new study with powerlifters comparing performance when instructed to lift the bar at “maximum velocity” versus a specific velocity target.Download link Articles:Considerations for Velocity-Based...
523 – Critical Fluctuations as an Early Warning Signal of Sports Injuries: Proof of Concept
523 Can we predict sports injury by monitoring transition points between attractors states of a complex system, or, in other words, points of instability? A test using soccer players.Download...
522 – Variability of Practice – A Deeper Dive
522 Variability of practice helps motor learning. That is an undeniable fact. But let’s consider some of the subtleties: what are the different ways we can create variability in...
