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The Perception & Action Podcast

Exploration of how psychological research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition and designing new technologies in sports and other high performance domains. Hosted by Rob Gray, professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, the podcast will review basic concepts and discuss the latest research in these areas.

Latest Episodes:

180 – Interview with Nick Winkelman, Irish Rugby, The Language of Coaching: The Art & Science of Teaching Movement Apr 09, 2020

Show notes

A discussion with Nick Winkelman about his new book: The Language of Coaching. Topic include: is there a place for the use of internal focus of attention cues, developing effective analogies, avoiding over-cueing and links between attentional focus cues and constraints.

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Language-Coaching-Science-Teaching-Movement-ebook/dp/B07Z74T5HW/

https://www.thelanguageofcoaching.com/

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179 - Journal Club #3: Pitch Information & the Regulation of Baseball Swing Timing Apr 07, 2020

Show notes

I am joined by Garret Boyum, Brock Hammit and Robert Frey from the Finding the Edge podcast and Peter Fadde from Game Sense sports to discuss an interesting new article on baseball batting. How does pitch sequencing and advance knowledge about the pitch type effect the timing of the different stages of a baseball swing? Is it a good idea to try and deliberately train batters to practice being fooled by a pitch?

Link to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiVJDIx0Zps

Articles:

Does the combination of different pitches and the absence of pitch type information influence timing control during batting in baseball?

Finding the Edge Podcast

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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178 – Interview with Chris Button, Otago, 2nd Ed of Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Applying Ecological Dynamics to Water Safety Apr 06, 2020

Show notes

My discussion with Chris Button, Professor in the School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand. How can ecological dynamics and representative learning design be used to improve water safety training and prevent drowning? And a look at the second edition of one of the most influential books in this area – Dynamics of Skill Acquisition. What's new in this edition? How are theory are application blended together?

Articles/Books:

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition: An Ecological Dynamics Approach

Education and transfer of water competencies: An ecological dynamics approach

Exploratory Analysis of Treading Water Coordination and the Influence of Task and Environmental Constraints

More information about my guest:

https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago731915.html

https://www.otago.ac.nz/sopeses/staff/academic/christopher_button.html

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris_Button

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177 - Journal Club #2 - Attractor Stability & Adaptation to Constraints Mar 31, 2020

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I am joined by @PsychScientists, @singh_harjiv and @Marianne_D1 to discuss new juggling study relating the stability of attractors in our intrinsic coordination and the ability to adapt to new task constraints.

Link to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiVJDIx0Zps

Articles:

The influence of attractor stability of intrinsic coordination patterns on the adaptation to new constraints

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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176 – Journal Club #1: Equipment Scaling & Functional Variability Mar 26, 2020

Show notes

I am joined by Marianne Davies and Ben Franks to discuss the really interesting new article by Tim Buszard and colleagues from AIS: Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability.

Journal Club Link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkFDwtrBfpZALV_oEPmc-cQ

Articles:

Scaling sports equipment for children promotes functional movement variability

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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175 – What is the Role of Eye Dominance in Skilled Motor Action? Mar 24, 2020

Show notes

What is the relevance of ocular dominance for the control of action? How might it effect an athlete's choice of stance or side? Is there any evidence to support the idea that being cross-dominant (different dominant hand and dominant eye) is advantageous in sports?

Journal Club Link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkFDwtrBfpZALV_oEPmc-cQ

Articles:

The Advantage of Eye–Hand Cross-Dominance for Baseball Batters

Sensory Eye Dominance: Relationship Between Eye and Brain

I Spy With My Dominant Eye

The Effect of Ocular Dominance on the Performance of Professional Baseball Players

Ocular Dominance and Handedness in Golf Putting

The Dominant Eye: Dominant for Parvo- But Not for Magno-Biased Stimuli?

Hand and Eye Dominance in Sport: Are Cricket Batters Taught to Bat Back-to-Front?

More information:

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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174 – Technique Change II: Proactive Interference, Constraints & Individual Differences Mar 19, 2020

Show notes

Revisiting issue of technique change, first discussed in Episode 14. How do we prevent proactive interference from a well-learned technique? How does this vary between individuals? How is technique change conceptualized in the ecological approach to skilled performance?

Articles:

Reducing Proactive Interference in Motor Tasks Interindividual differences in the capability to change automatized movement patterns

More information:

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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173 – Practice Design to Improve Emergent Decision Making Mar 17, 2020

Show notes

A look at decisions as emerging from a process searching for information to act and acting to acquire information. How can we manipulate constraints and interaction with opponents in practice to improve this process?

Articles:

The ecological dynamics of decision making in sport Changes in practice task constraints shape decision-making behaviours of team games players Manipulating Constraints to Train Decision Making in Rugby Union

More information:

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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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172 – Game-Based Approaches to Coaching Feb 25, 2020

Show notes

A look at games based approaches to coaching. How do methods like teaching games for understanding differ from the constraints led approach? Is the CLA just "old wine in new bottles" or does it add something new?

Articles:

Old wine in new bottles: a response to claims that teaching games for understanding was not developed as a theoretically based pedagogical framework A Review of the Game-Based Approaches to Coaching Literature in Competitive Team Sport Settings Why the Constraints-Led Approach is not Teaching Games for Understanding: a clarification

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

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Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

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Support the podcast and receive bonus content

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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171 – Coordination, Control & Skill: A Three Stage Model of Motor Learning Feb 18, 2020

Show notes

What are the differences between coordination, control and skill? A look at a 3 stage model of skill acquisition and its implications for coaching and motor learning research.

Articles:

Coordination, control and skill Change in Motor Learning: A Coordination and Control Perspective

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

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Support the podcast and receive bonus content

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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