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Title: Skill Acquisition in Sport
Code: B70755
Author: A Mark Williams an Nicola J Hodges
Year: 2004
Length: 464 pages
Price: £35.00 
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Overview:

Success in sport depends upon the athlete's ability to develop and perfect a specific set of perceptual, cognitive and motor skills.

This book examines how we learn such skills and, in particular, considers the crucial role of practice and instruction in the process. Leading authorities within the field provide a comprehensive review of current research and theory on skill acquisition. Potential avenues for future work are highlighted and, where possible, implications for instruction and practice are discussed.

Containing full discussion of current and complex issues in motor behaviour and recommendations for effective practice in the field, Skill Acquisition in Sport will be of interest to those involved in movement sciences and motor behaviour work in sport, as well as physical therapy, ergonomics and human factors.

Contents:
  • Preface
  • A historical perspective on skill acquisition
  • Contextual interference
  • the utilisation of visual feedback in the acquisition of motor skills
  • One trial motor learning
  • Individual differences in skill acquisition of motor skills
  • Decision training: cognitive strategies for enhancing motor performance
  • Understanding the role of augmented feedback: the good, the bad and the ugly
  • Instructions, demonstrations and the learning process: creating and constraining movement options
  • observational leading: is it time we took another look?
  • Implicit motor learning, reinvestment and movement disruption: what you don't know won't hurt you
  • Deliberate practice and expert performance: defining the path to excellence
  • A life-span model of the acquisition and retention of expert perceptual-motor performance
  • Psychological and related indices of attention during motor skill acquisition
  • From novice to expert performance: memory, attention, and the control of complex sensorimotor skills
  • Perceptual and cognitive expertise in sport: implications for skill acquisition and performance enhancement
  • The evolution of coordination during skill acquisition: the dynamical systems approach
  • Perceptual learning is mastering degrees of freedom
  • Musculoskeletal constraints on the acquisition of motor skills
  • Emergence of sports skills under constraints


About the Author:

A. Mark Williams is Professor of Motor Behaviour. Nicola A. Hodges is a Senior Lecturer in Motor Behaviour. Both have published extensively in the areas of skill acquisition and motor expertise and are based at the Research Institute for Sport and exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
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