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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Practicing the “Wrong Way” Reduces Anxiety
Following up on my new paper that just came out today, showing the skill acquisition/performance benefits of deliberating practicing undesired outcomes, I wanted to share some data I collected...
528 – Assessing Progress in the Ecological Approach: The Method of Progessive Constraints
528 How can we assess and measure an athlete’s progress when you use an ecological approach? How do we know whether what we are doing is working or not?...
527 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 1 and 2 (JC46)
527 On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson to discuss chapters 1 and 2 from Michael Turvey’s book “Lectures on Perception: An...
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...
