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

Highlights•Expectations for positive experience/outcomes benefit motor performance and
learning.•Conditions that support performer autonomy benefit motor performance and …

Effective motor performance is important for surviving and thriving, and skilled movement is
critical in many activities. Much theorizing over the past few decades has focused on how …

In the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016), three factors are
postulated to facilitate motor performance and learning: Enhanced expectancies (EE) for …

The present study examined the influence on motor performance of key variables described
in the OPTIMAL (Optimizing Performance Through Intrinsic Motivation and Attention for …

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 …

This chapter focuses on fundamental influences of motoric factors during execution;
provides evidence to support the desirability and applicability of conscious motor processing …

Skilled movement entails learned motor patterns that are produced with a high degree of
accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. The classic definition of skill by Guthrie (1952) …

Gabriele Wulf discusses an interesting line of research and rightly emphasizes the
importance of the attentional set in learning motor skills. However, while the empirical …

The OPTIMAL theory of motor learning contends that an external focus of attention (EF),
enhanced expectancies (EE), and autonomy support (AS) are key attentional and …