Skill acquisition in sport : research, theory, and practice /

Research into the development of expertise and skill acquisition in sports performance is a specific area of research within the more general field of motor skills acquisition. This is a fully comprehensive and focused work on the subject

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hodges, Nicola J., 1970-, Williams, A. M (A. Mark), 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
London ; New York : 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. A historical perspective on skill acquisition
  • 2. Contextual interference
  • 3. The utilization of visual feedback in the acquisition of motor skills
  • 4. One-trial motor learning
  • 5. Individual differences in skill acquisition
  • 6. Decision training : cognitive strategies for enhancing motor performance
  • 7. Understanding the role of augmented feedback : the good, the bad and the ugly
  • 8. Instruction, demonstrations and the learning process : creating and constraining movement options
  • 9. Observational learning : is it time we took another look?
  • 10. Implicit motor learning, reinvestment and movement disruption : what you don't know won't hurt you
  • 11. Deliberate practice and expert performance : defining the path to excellence
  • 12. A life-span model of the acquistion and retention of expert perceptual-motor performance
  • 13. Psychophysiological and related indices of attention during motor skill acquistion
  • 14. From novice to expert performance : memory, attention and the control of complex sensori-motor skills
  • 15. Perceptual and cognitive expertise in sport : implications for skill acquistion and performance enhancement
  • 16. The evolution of coordination during skill acquistion : the dynamical systems approach
  • 17. Perceptual learning is mastering perceptual degrees in freedom
  • 18. Musculoskeletal constraints on the acquistion of motor skills
  • 19. Emergence of sport skills
  • 1 A historical perspective on skill acquisition / Jeffrey J. Summers
  • Pt. I. Information processing perspectives
  • 2. Contextual interference / Timothy D. Lee and Dominic A. Simon
  • 3. The utilization of visual feedback in the acquisition of motor skills / Michael A. Khan and Ian M. Franks
  • 4. One-trial motor learning / John Dickinson, Daniel Weeks, Bill Randall and David Goodman
  • 5. Individual differences in skill acquisition / Mary O. Boyle and Phillip L. Ackerman
  • 6. Decision training: cognitive strategies for enhancing motor performance / Joan N. Vickers, Mary-Ann Reeves, Kristine L. Chambers and Steve Martell
  • 7. Understanding the role of augmented feedback: the good, the bad and the ugly / Gabriele Wulf and Charles H. Shea
  • 8. Instructions, demonstrations and the learning process: creating and constraining movement options / Nicola J. Hodges and Ian M. Franks
  • 9. Observational learning: is the time we took another look? / Robert R. Horn and A. Mark Williams
  • 10. Implicit motor learning, reinvestment and movement disruption: what you don't know won't hurt you / Richard S. W. Masters and Jonathan P. Maxwell
  • Pt. II. The expertise approach
  • 11. Deliberate practice and expert performance: defining the path to excellence / Paul Ward, Nicola J. Hodges, A. Mark Williams and Janet L. Starkes
  • 12. A life-span model of the acquisition and retention of expert perceptual-motor performance / Janet L. Starkes, John D. Cullen and Clare MacMohan
  • 13. Psychophysiological and related indices of attention during motor skill acquisition / Christopher M. Janelle, Aaron R. Duley and Stephen A. Coombes
  • 14. From novice to expert performance: memory, attention and the control of complex sensori-motor skills / Sian L. Beilock and Thomas H. Carr
  • 15. Perceptual and cognitive expertise in sport: implications for skill acquisition and performance enhancement / A. Mark Williams, Paul Ward and Nicholas J. Smeeton
  • Pt. III. Ecological/dynamical systems approach
  • 16. The evolution of coordination during skill acquisition: the dynamical systems approach / Raoul Huys, Andreas Daffertshofer and Peter J. Beek
  • 17. Perceptual learning is mastering perceptual degrees of freedom / Geert J. P. Savelsbergh, John van der Kamp, Raoual R. D. Oudejans and Mark A. Scott
  • 18. Musculoskeletal constraints on the acquisition of motor skills / Jonathan Shemmell, James R. Tresilian, Stephen Riek and Richard G. Carson
  • 19. Emergence of sport skills under constraints / Duarte Araujo, Keith Davids, Simon J. Bennett, Chris Button and Graham Chapman.