My review of the book “This is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps & Performance Anxiety”. How are past injuries and performance failures related to an athlete’s current struggles. Is Brain Spotting the key to preventing choking, the yips and freezing behavior in athletes?

Link:

http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Sports-Performance/dp/1608448649

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

A discussion with Jennifer Cumming, University of Birmingham. We discuss topics including imagery use and observational learning in athletes, mental skills training, tools for assessing the psychological abilities of athletes, and using sports psychology to help homeless kids.

More information about my guest:

http://jennifercumming.com/

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

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/sportex/cumming-jennifer.aspx

https://twitter.com/drjenncumming

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: [email protected]

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

A discussion with Jennifer Cumming, University of Birmingham. We discuss topics including imagery use and observational learning in athletes, mental skills training, tools for assessing the psychological abilities of athletes, and using sports psychology to help homeless kids.

More information about my guest:

http://jennifercumming.com/

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

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/sportex/cumming-jennifer.aspx

https://twitter.com/drjenncumming

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: [email protected]

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

What processes occur during the times when an athlete is not on the field or court, that is there off-time between practices and competitions.  How important are these rest periods for learning sports skills?  Does it matter what an athlete does during these periods?  Could doing something like playing video games possibly interfere with the gains made during practice?  

Links to articles discussed:

Leg muscle recruitment during cycling is less developed in triathletes than cyclists despite matched cycling training loads

Practice With Sleep Makes Perfect: Sleep-Dependent Motor Skill Learning

The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration

Experience-dependent changes in cerebral activation during human REM sleep

Watch and Learn: Seeing Is Better than Doing when Acquiring Consecutive Motor Tasks

Do action video games improve perception and cognition?

Action-Video-Game Experience Alters the Spatial Resolution of Vision

More information:

http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @ShakeyWaits

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Thomas Allen – Rest Until I Die

Grumsling – Down Time

Silence is Sexy – The Science of Sleep

Auto Bonfire – I Sleep Fine

Screaming Mirror – The Observer

Saucy Jack – Beat You at Your Own Game

via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

What processes occur during the times when an athlete is not on the field or court, that is there off-time between practices and competitions.  How important are these rest periods for learning sports skills?  Does it matter what an athlete does during these periods?  Could doing something like playing video games possibly interfere with the gains made during practice?  

Links to articles discussed:

Leg muscle recruitment during cycling is less developed in triathletes than cyclists despite matched cycling training loads

Practice With Sleep Makes Perfect: Sleep-Dependent Motor Skill Learning

The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration

Experience-dependent changes in cerebral activation during human REM sleep

Watch and Learn: Seeing Is Better than Doing when Acquiring Consecutive Motor Tasks

Do action video games improve perception and cognition?

Action-Video-Game Experience Alters the Spatial Resolution of Vision

More information:

http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @ShakeyWaits

Credits:

The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Thomas Allen – Rest Until I Die

Grumsling – Down Time

Silence is Sexy – The Science of Sleep

Auto Bonfire – I Sleep Fine

Screaming Mirror – The Observer

Saucy Jack – Beat You at Your Own Game

via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Back in October of last year we lost one of the great thinkers and researchers in Motor Control and Motor Learning, UCLA Professor Richard Schmidt.  Richard’s Schema Theory of Motor Learning and Generalized Motor Program have been both highly influential and highly contentious. What will their legacy be for future research?

Articles:

A schema theory of discrete motor skill learning.

Motor Schema Theory After 27 Years: Reflections and Implications for a New Theory

Current status of the motor program: Revisited

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=176037786

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

Back in October of last year we lost one of the great thinkers and researchers in Motor Control and Motor Learning, UCLA Professor Richard Schmidt.  Richard’s Schema Theory of Motor Learning and Generalized Motor Program have been both highly influential and highly contentious. What will their legacy be for future research?

Articles:

A schema theory of discrete motor skill learning.

Motor Schema Theory After 27 Years: Reflections and Implications for a New Theory

Current status of the motor program: Revisited

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=176037786

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

A discussion with Duarte Araujo, University of Lisbon. We discuss topics including an ecological approach to talent identification, affordances, non-linear pedagogy, developing sports analytics with a sound theoretical basis and Duarte’s upcoming book: Performance Analysis in Team Sports.

More information about my guest:

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

http://spertlab.fmh.ulisboa.pt/

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: [email protected]

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

A discussion with Duarte Araujo, University of Lisbon. We discuss topics including an ecological approach to talent identification, affordances, non-linear pedagogy, developing sports analytics with a sound theoretical basis and Duarte’s upcoming book: Performance Analysis in Team Sports.

More information about my guest:

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

http://spertlab.fmh.ulisboa.pt/

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: [email protected]

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

News: Does going for a 30min run make it easier to learn a motor skill afterwards?  Is there an optimal balance between stability and flexibility in practice?

Articles:

A Single Bout of Moderate Aerobic Exercise Improves Motor Skill Acquisition

Transfer as a function of exploration and stabilization in original practice

Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Sports Performance

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

You Me Tree – Run

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News

via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com