The Perception & Action Podcast
Exploration of how psychology and sports science 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.
Episodes
How can we better understand sports injury by considering factors such as good variability, coordination, and movement synergies using a dynamical systems approach?
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My interview with Alex Sarama, founder of Transforming Basketball. Taking a constraints-led approach to basketball practice.
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A look at my current thoughts about and how I am using the CLA
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A look at a recent study that addresses a question I get quite often: do the basic principles of motor learning, in this case, those proposed by OPTIMAL theory, still hold when we are dealing with highly skil...
A look at a recent study that provides evidence that cricket bowlers use movement variability (as opposed to repeatability) to regulate the timing and speed of their delivery. And looking back at a classic in...
A look at research (and some of my personal experiences) on the effectiveness of co-created coach education workshops to bridge the gap between current coaching practices and scientific evidence. A little bit...
Sharing some of my experiences as a Skill Acquisition Specialist. Is it really worth it for a team to hire one?
How does the presence of the Yips influence motor coordination in throwing? Do the muscle synergies used to control our abundant motor...
Can expert coaches reliably judge the key features of a sporting action like a tennis serve? Does viewing angle, age and gender matter?
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Revisiting the conceptualization of affordances as invitations for action. Why are some affordances more inviting than others and how can we influence this as a coach?
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How can an ecological approach be applied to understanding and coaching rowing. A look at a few research studies. Read more
A look at a study examining the effects of a constraints-led approach to coaching cricket bowling. What type of task constraint manipulations can be used to improve bowling accuracy and discipline?
How do we coordinate degrees of freedom when learning a joint action, like carrying a piano, where two people are working together to achieve a goal? Do we see evidence of Bernstein’s freezing and freeing DF ...
Do athletes that suffer from the Yips have different mental imagery than those that did not? How might we conceptualize the Yips from and ecological point of view.
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What is the difference between technique and skill? Do we need to learn the former before we can have the latter?
Exploring coaches experiences in using an non-linear, ecological approach to coaching
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My interview with Andrew Sheaff, author of the new book: A Constraints-led approach to swim coaching
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A look at a couple new studies addressing some of the commonly raised criticisms of the FOA literature. Does the benefit of an external focus change when you use multiple different cues across sessions or change the location of th...
an interview with Rajiv Ranganthan & Andrew Driska discussing their recent article: “Is Premature Theorizing H...
A brief look at the incredible career of Michael Turvey and his contributions to the ecological approach to perception-action
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