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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:

51 – Rule Changes to Make Sports More Exciting Mar 07, 2017

Show notes

Sports Science Shorts: will baseball's new proposed rule changes to speed the pace of play make the game more exciting and attract new fans? What can we learn from similar attempts made in soccer? What determines a sport's fans level of excitement

Articles:

How to Make Soccer More Attractive? Rewards for a Victory, the Teams' Offensiveness, and the Home Bias Does the Three-Point Rule Make Soccer More Exciting? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design Suspense: Dynamic Incentives in Sports Contests Major League Baseball pace-of-play rules and their influence on predicted muscle fatigue during simulated baseball games http://www.si.com/mlb/2017/02/13/raising-strike-zone-pace-action

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Silver Jews – Random Rules

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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50 – Structure of Motor Variability & Learning Rate, Facebook & Anxiety, Child vs Adult Motor Learning Feb 28, 2017

Show notes

News: A look at a few recent articles in the area of motor learning and performance. Can the structure of motor variability predict the rate at which a performer learns a new skill? Does using social media before a game increase anxiety in an athlete? What differs between the way in which I child and adult learns a motor skill?

Articles:

Can the Structure of Motor Variability Predict Learning Rate?

Facebook use and its relationship with sport anxiety Children and Adults Both Learn Motor Sequences Quickly, But Do So Differently

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Coty Hogue - Second Hand News

Silence is Sexy – Stories Yet to Come

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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49 – Interview with Danny Newcombe, Oxford Brookes University, CLA & Coaching Feb 21, 2017

Show notes

A discussion with Danny Newcombe, Lecturer in Sports Coaching and PE, Oxford Brookes University. Topics discussed include: applying the constraints-led approach to practice design and physical education curriculum, research on the constraints-led approach --what does it tell us about its effectiveness and are we using the correct methods of evaluation?

More information about my guest:

http://www.shs.brookes.ac.uk/daniel-newcombe

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

https://twitter.com/dannynewcombe

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Twitter: @Shakeywaits

Email: robgray@asu.edu

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I'm on a Talk Show

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

via freemusicarchive.org

48 – Interview with Diane Ste-Marie, University of Ottawa, Observational Learning & Feedback Feb 14, 2017

Show notes

A discussion with Diane Ste-Marie, Professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. Topics discussed include: why do athletes tend to perform better when they have control over the feedback they receive and when is self-controlled feedback ineffective? How do athletes use observation of themselves or others to acquire or improve sports skills and what factors should be taken into account when applying observational learning in sport?

More information about my guest:

https://health.uottawa.ca/people/ste-marie-diane

https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/15275124_Diane_M_Ste-Marie

Article mentioned:

Observation interventions for motor skill learning and performance: An applied model for the use of observation

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Twitter: @Shakeywaits

Email: robgray@asu.edu

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I'm on a Talk Show

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

via freemusicarchive.org

47 – Interview with Dave Collins, Institute of Coaching & Performance, UCLAN Feb 07, 2017

Show notes

A discussion with Dave Collins, Professor & Director of the Institute of Coaching & Performance, University of Central Lancashire. Topics discussed include: what it's like to be a sports psychologist, talent development, performance analytics, technique change, bridging the gap between research and practice, and the role of social media in research.

More information about my guest:

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/staff_profiles/professor_dave_collins.php

http://www.gm4p.com/

https://twitter.com/davegm4p

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-collins-46678310

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Twitter: @Shakeywaits

Email: robgray@asu.edu

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I'm on a Talk Show

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

via freemusicarchive.org

46 – Self Talk & Mantras in Sport Jan 31, 2017

Show notes

Do athletes perform better when they talk to themselves? Should the talk be motivational or instructional? Positive or negative? Does it work for both novices and experts?

Articles/links:

The influence of self-talk on the performance of skilled female tennis players Self-talk influences vertical jump performance and kinematics in male rugby union players

Self-Talk of Marathon Runners

Self-Talk and Sports Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Effects of Self-Talk: A Systematic Review Self-talk: Review and sport-specific model

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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Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

The Pandoras – You're All Talk

Silence is Sexy – Talk

The Sights – Tick Talk Lies

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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45 – Soccer Illusions, Detecting Opponents with Sound & Training with Mirrors Jan 24, 2017

Show notes

News: A look at a few recent journal articles. Do soccer players and referees sometimes see an event that never really happened? Can a basketball player detect where a dribbler is headed using sound alone? Is doing exercise in front of a mirror effective?

Articles:

Seeing the unseen? Illusory causal filling in FIFA referees, players, and novices

Expert Players Accurately Detect an Opponent's Movement Intentions Through Sound Alone The Effects of Either a Mirror, Internal or External Focus Instructions on Single and Multi-Joint Tasks

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Phantom Goal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huS7WcDHJXs

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Ultimate Painting – Can't You See

White Hills – Oceans of Sound

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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44 –Social Facilitation of Performance & The 1st Sports Psych Experiment Jan 17, 2017

Show notes

Why does the presence of others change the performance of an individual athlete? Why is this social facilitation effect sometimes good and sometimes bad? Does it matter whether the other people are observing, evaluating or performing the same action? Does being "observed" via activity monitoring technology facilitate performance?

Articles/links:

The Dynamogenic Factors in Pacemaking and Competition

Social Facilitation From Triplett to Electronic Performance Monitoring

Social "facilitation" as challenge and threat

Social facilitation in motor tasks: a review of research and theory

Social Facilitation of Running: An Unobtrusive

Yerkes Dodson Figures

My other (new) podcast: Ultra Running Science & Superstitions

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

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

The Dark Brothers – Watching People

The Henry Girls – Watching the Detectives

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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43 – P&A Court II: Low vs High Variability in Motor Control & Learning Jan 10, 2017

Show notes

Should the goal of practice be to reduce movement variability to as low a value as possible? Is high variability the signature of an unskilled performer or a necessity for effective learning?

Articles/links:

A schema theory of discrete motor skill learning

Feedback-Induced Variability and the Learning of Generalized Motor Programs Optimizing generalized motor program and parameter learning

Variability in baseball pitching biomechanics among various levels of competition

What variability tells us about movement expertise The bliss (not the problem) of motor abundance (not redundancy) Timing an attacking forehand drive in table tennis Regulation of gait in long jumping Inter-individual variability in the upper–lower limb breaststroke coordination Differing Roles of Functional Movement Variability as Experience Increases in Gymnastics The education of attention as explanation of variability of practice effects: learning the final approach phase in a flight simulator

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mr Airplane Man – Very Bad Feeling

Dazie Mae – The Very Opposite of My Husband

The New Mystickal Troubadours – The Fully-Blissed Out

Leather Uppers – I Don't Like You Very Much

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

42 – Top 5 Sport Psychology Stories of 2016 Jan 03, 2017

Show notes

My list of the top 5 sports psychology stories from 2016:

The death knell for brain games?
Deliberate practice fights back!
What to do about the relative age effect?
Advances in Teamwork Research
Somebody's watching (or monitoring) me

Articles/links:

Do "Brain-Training" Programs Work? Peak: The New Science of Expertise Age-ordered shirt numbering reduces the selection bias associated with the relative age effect Reversal of the Relative Age Effect Team Synergies in Sport: Theory and Measures Theoretical and Methodical Approaches to Studying Team Cognition in Sports

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

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