The Perception & Action Podcast

A look at a couple of my skill acquisition studies that have recently come out. How does variability in practice conditions influence the coordination of degrees of freedom? And, a direct comparison between prescriptive instruction, differential learning and a constraints led approach. Articles: Changes in movement coordination associated with skill acquisition in baseball batting: Freezing/freeing degrees of freedom and functional variability Comparing the constraints led approach, differential learning and prescriptive instruction for training opposite-field hitting in baseball More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Kevin Becker from Texas Women's University. What factors moderate the classic "external focus is better than an internal focus" effect? What are athletes' self-reported focus strategies? How might we use multiple cues? What are holistic cues? More info about my guest: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y2kl-b0AAAAJ&hl=en https://apps.twu.edu/my1cv/profile.aspx?type=twh&id=hGBQqjQhd%2F8dFlc7AnxGJQ%3D%3D https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin_Becker More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content

A look at research examining how machine learning techniques can be used to further our understanding of motor learning, investigating questions related to talent development, the structure of practice, the level of tactical proficiency, and recovery from practice. Articles: Complementing subjective with objective data in analysing expertise: A machine-learning approach applied to badminton The Identification of "Game Changers" in England Cricket's Developmental Pathway for Elite Spin Bowling: A Machine Learning Approach It Ain't What You Do—It's the Way That You Do It: Is Optimizing Challenge Key in the Development of Super-Elite Batsmen? Machine learning approach to model sport training More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Christian Vater from the University of Bern. What are the different ways athletes use peripheral vision in sports? Can you train an athlete to adopt a different gaze strategy? How can we use VR to better understand and train vision in sports. More info about my guest: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n0fsp3UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Vater More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content

A look at recent studies investigating the use of situational probabilities by athletes? Does knowing your opponent's tendencies make you more susceptible to deception? Does it matter whether you are given probability info about your opponent or acquire it yourself? How can we account for the use of this type of information in an ecological approach to action? Articles: Integrating situational probability and kinematic information when anticipating disguised movements Knowledge is power? Outcome probability information impairs detection of deceptive intent The impact of self-generated and explicitly acquired contextual knowledge on anticipatory performance Quantifying the nature of anticipation in professional tennis More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

How do implicit and explicit learning interact with each other? If a coach gives an athlete an explicit strategy for correcting their technique is it going to hinder implicit learning? What does this say about whether it is a good idea for a coach to sample from different theoretical approaches and philosophies in practice design? Articles: An implicit plan overrides an explicit strategy during visuomotor adaptation. A spatial explicit strategy reduces error but interferes with sensorimotor adaptation Implicit adaptation compensates for erratic explicit strategy in human motor learning More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A look at how modifying sports equipment (e.g., changing size, altering mass distribution or making more flexible) can enhance motor learning by adding variability and increasing movement execution redundancy. Articles: Equipment modification can enhance skill learning in young field hockey players "Essential noise" - Enhancing variability of informational constraints benefits movement control: A comment on Waddington and Adams (2003) Visual responses to changing size and to sideways motion for different directions of motion in depth: Linearization of visual responses The Effect of Variability of Practice at Execution Redundancy Level in Skilled and Novice Basketball Players Effects of manipulating ball type on youth footballers' performance during small-sided games Blog Post: https://perceptionaction.com/simplification/ Bradman Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o6vTXgYdqA More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A look at individual differences in motor learning and coordination. What are intrinsic dynamics and how do they influence learning? How do patterns of coordination change with learning? Why do some athletes seem to be better able to self-organize than others? Articles: Multi-stability and meta-stability: understanding dynamic coordination in the brain Beyond the blank slate: routes to learning new coordination patterns depend on the intrinsic dynamics of the learner—experimental evidence and theoretical model Transfer of a learned coordination function: Specific, individual and generalizable A novice-expert comparison of (intra-limb) coordination subserving the volleyball serve More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A look at the concepts of multi and meta-stability in coordination. How can a performer have multiple movement solutions that are both stable and flexible at the same time? How might we develop this by training within meta-stable regions? Articles: Multi-stability and meta-stability: understanding dynamic coordination in the brain How boxers decide to punch a target: emergent behaviour in nonlinear dynamical movement systems Metastability and emergent performance of dynamic interceptive actions More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

The guests on this episode are Damian Farrow, Alex Lascu, Derek Panchuk, and Carl Woods. They discuss the shift from coach as instructor to coach designer, the challenges of 'hands-off' coaching, the importance of understanding skill acquisition theory, and the need for a consistent purpose across different coaching disciplines.