The Perception & Action Podcast

Why is movement variability beneficial for skill acquisition and execution? What distinguishes "good" from "bad" variability in movement? How do different coaching/instructional methods (e.g. ordering practice conditions, cueing, differential learning, and manipulating constraints) compare in terms of their ability to encourage functional variability? When should we be trying to maximize variability?

Articles:

Creative Motor Actions as Emerging from Movement Variability

The Role of Variability in Motor Learning

Motor variability is not noise, but grist for the learning mill

Individual Movement Variability Magnitudes Are Explained by Cortical Neural Variability

Temporal structure of motor variability is dynamically regulated and predicts motor learning ability.

Training video:

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A discussion with Shawn Myszka from Movement Mastery. In the interview we discuss the upcoming Sport Movement Skill Conference and the Ecological Dynamics movement in coaching. More information about my guest:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sport-movement-skill-conference-2018-tickets-41843484990

https://twitter.com/MovementMiyagi

https://twitter.com/Movement_Master

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A discussion with Ed Coughlan, Phil Kearny and Olly Logan, founders of Movement & Skill Acquisition Ireland. In the interview we discuss the goals of the organization and their upcoming conference: Constraints based coaching and ecological dynamics to enhance sports performance. More information about my guests:

https://twitter.com/MSAIreland

http://events.cit.ie/index.cfm?page=events&eventId=323

https://twitter.com/DrSkillAcq/

https://twitter.com/kearney_phil

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A discussion with Mark O'Sullivan, Coach with AIK Football in Stockholm. We discuss Mark's concept of football interactions and how it relates to practice design and affordances, and the "race to the bottom" in talent identification. More information about my guest:

https://footblogball.wordpress.com/category/mark-o-sullivan/

https://twitter.com/markstkhlm

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A look at research investigating the effects of assisted/guided movement on skill acquisition. Can experiencing the movement pattern of an elite athlete facilitate motor learning in a novice? Is it better to use assistance to reduce or augment errors?

Articles/Books:

Can Robots Help the Learning of Skilled Actions? Robot assistance of motor learning: A neuro-cognitive perspective Robotic guidance induces long-lasting changes in the movement pattern of a novel sport-specific motor task No Effect of Assisted Hip Rotation on Bat Velocity Sonification and haptic feedback in addition to visual feedback enhances complex motor task learning The effect of haptic guidance and visual feedback on learning a complex tennis task The effect of assisted jumping on vertical jump height in high-performance volleyball players

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A look at how Bernstein's famous phrase "repetition without repetition" revolutionized how we think about motor learning. And an introduction to a few extensions of Bernstein's ideas including coordinative structures and the uncontrolled manifold hypothesis.

Articles/Books:

Dexterity and Its Development

The Bernstein perspective: II. The concept of muscle linkage or coordinative structure The bliss (not the problem) of motor abundance (not redundancy) Stages in Learning Motor Synergies: A View Based on the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis

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A look at Bernstein's theory of freezing/freeing degrees of freedom during skill acquisition and some research which has tested these ideas.

Articles/Books:

Dexterity and Its Development

Free(z)ing Degrees of Freedom in Skill Acquisition Conscious Control Is Associated With Freezing of Mechanical Degrees of Freedom During Motor Learning Throwing Skills: Analysis of Movement Phases in Early Motor Learning Changes in coordination, control and outcome as a result of extended practice on a novel motor skill Online feedback and the regulation of degrees of freedom in motor control

Nonlinear Pedagogy: An Effective Approach to Cater for Individual Differences in Learning a Sports Skill

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The first episode in a series looking at the contributions of Nikolai Bernstein to our understanding of motor control and motor learning. What were Bernstein's "problems? Is finding solutions to these problems really what effective coaching is all about?

Articles/Books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Bernstein

Dexterity and Its Development

The Bernstein perspective: I. The problems of degrees of freedom and context-conditioned variability

Issues in the Theory of Action: Degrees of Freedom, Coordinative Structures and Coalitions

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A look at the Differential Learning approach to skill acquisition. Is maximizing movement variability by preventing repetition and correction the optimal way to design practice? How does this differ from the Constraints-Led Approach?

Articles

The Nonlinear Nature of Learning - A Differential Learning Approach

Time scales of adaptive behavior and motor learning in the presence of stochastic perturbations

Does noise provide a basis for the unification of motor learning theories?

A new method to learn to start in speed skating: A differencial learning approach

A quantitative dynamical systems approach to differential learning: self-organization principle and order parameter equations

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The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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A look at some recent research examining contextual interference, blocked vs random and variable vs constant practice. How should coaches put these concepts into practice?

Articles

Quantifying Contextual Interference and Its Effect on Skill Transfer in Skilled Youth Tennis Players Effects of practice schedule and task specificity on the adaptive process of motor learning Exploring the applicability of the contextual interference effect in sports practice Serial practice impairs motor skill consolidation Mechanisms within the Parietal Cortex Correlate with the Benefits of Random Practice in Motor Adaptation

Practicing with gradual increases in contextual interference enhances visuomotor learning

Random Versus Blocked Practice to Enhance Mental Representation in Golf Putting

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The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy

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