Attention and motor skill learning

Author(s)

• Wulf, Gabriele

Bibliographic Information

Attention and motor skill learning

Gabriele Wulf

Human Kinetics, c2007

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index

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Contents of Works

• Attentional focus and the learning process
• Internal versus external focus instructions
• Internal versus external focus feedback
• Advantages of attentional focus on the movement effect
• Level of expertise
• Suprapostural tasks
• Special populations

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A text for graduate-level courses and seminars and for upper-level undergraduate motor behavior and cognitive psychology courses. A reference for motor behavior and human movement specialists and researchers; instructional strategies and pedagogy instructors; sport psychologists; physical education and adapted PE teachers; coaches; music teachers; and physical, rehabilitation, and occupational therapists.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Attentional Focus and the Learning Process Motor Skill Learning Stages Attentional Resources Summary Chapter 2: Internal Versus External Focus Instructions First Experimental Evidence Sport Skill Learning Other Skills Distance Effects Individual Differences Performance Versus Learning Summary Chapter 3: Internal Versus External Focus Feedback Attentional Focus and Concurrent Feedback Sport Skill Learning Theoretical Implications Summary Chapter 4: Advantages of Attentional Focus on the Movement Effect Not Focusing on the Movement or Focusing on the Movement Effect Constrained Action Hypothesis Attentional Focus and the Stages of Learning Preconditions for External Focus Benefits Summary Chapter 5: Level of Expertise Instruction and Feedback in Novice Motor Learning and Performance Instruction and Feedback in Expert Motor Learning and Performance Action Control and Attentional Focus Optimal Attentional Focus Summary Chapter 6: Suprapostural Tasks Type of Attentional Focus Type of Attentional Focus and Enhanced Learning of Balance Tasks Summary Chapter 7: Special Populations Children Aging Parkinson's Disease Stroke Speech Disorders Summary

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Details

• NCID: BA83225759
• ISBN:
  • 9780736062701
  • 073606270X
• LCCN: 2006103132
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Champaign, Ill.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 211 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BF295
  • NLM : WE 104
  • DC22 : 152.3/34
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Motor learning
  • LCSH : Attention
  • MESH : Motor Skills -- physiology
  • MESH : Attention -- physiology
  • MESH : Learning -- physiology