A key postulate of traditional theories of motor skill-learning (eg,;) is that expert performance
is largely automatic in nature and tends to deteriorate when the performer “reinvests” in, or …

Objectives Traditional theories of motor learning (eg, Fitts & Posner, 1967), along with
certain contemporary psychological perspectives (eg, Weiss and Reber, 2012, Wulf, 2013) …

Abstract Dreyfus and Dreyfus'(1986) influential phenomenological analysis of skill
acquisition proposes that expert performance is guided by non-cognitive responses which …

How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in
skill eventually plateau? Commentators and spectators alike are fascinated by how athletes …

Skilled motor performance is essential in sports, the performing arts, various occupations,
and many daily activities. Scientists and practitioners alike are therefore interested in …

The exceptional performance of elite practitioners in domains like sports or chess is not a
reflection of just exceptional general cognitive ability or innate sensorimotor superiority …

We examined the effectiveness of different cueing conditions during observational learning
of a soccer accuracy pass. Sixty participants (30 males, 30 females) were randomly …

From the naissance of systematic skill acquisition research in the late 1800s (see Bryan and
Harter, 1899) to the present day, investigators of human skill have explored differences in …

The recent upsurge in “brain training and perceptual-cognitive training,” proposing to
improve isolated processes, such as brain function, visual perception, and decision-making …

A number of influential theories of skill acquisition posit that the performing body is an
absent presence during “habitualized” action. The current article counters this claim by …