“Essential noise”–enhancing variability of informational constraints benefits movement control: a comment on Waddington and Adams (2003)

K Davids, R Shuttleworth, C Button… - British journal of sports …, 2004 - bjsm.bmj.com
This commentary proposes a dynamical systems perspective to re-interpret data from a
group of international soccer players demonstrating that wearing textured insoles in soccer …

Movement systems as dynamical systems: the functional role of variability and its implications for sports medicine

K Davids, P Glazier, D Araujo, R Bartlett - Sports medicine, 2003 - Springer
In recent years, concepts and tools from dynamical systems theory have been successfully
applied to the study of movement systems, contradicting traditional views of variability as …

Exploiting system fluctuations. Differential training in physical prevention and rehabilitation programs for health and exercise

WI Schöllhorn, H Beckmann, K Davids - Medicina, 2010 - mdpi.com
Background. Traditional causal modeling of health interventions tends to be linear in nature
and lacks multidisciplinarity. Consequently, strategies for exercise prescription in health …

What do you hear? The effect of stadium noise on football players' passing performances

FW Otte, SK Millar, S Klatt - European journal of sport science, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Stadium noise–created by spectators and fans–plays a critical part in the reality of
professional sports. Due to a lack of research on the impact of these auditory cues and …

Sensorimotor feedback loops are selectively sensitive to reward

O Codol, M Kashefi, CJ Forgaard, JM Galea… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Although it is well established that motivational factors such as earning more money for
performing well improve motor performance, how the motor system implements this …

6 Stochastic perturbations in athletics field events enhance skill acquisition

WI Schöllhorn, H Beckmann, D Janssen… - Motor learning in …, 2010 - books.google.com
The constraintsled perspective suggests threefactorsthat form abasisfor understanding
complex phenomena in the training process. Wewill examinethese inthe contextofthree …

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

WI Schollhorn, H Beckmann… - … journal of sport …, 2006 - researchgate.net
In this position paper we examine whether performance and learning of basic motor skills in
football can be enhanced by adding noise in the form of random components to target …

Intra-individual movement variability during skill transitions: A useful marker?

HJ Carson, D Collins, J Richards - European Journal of Sport …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Applied research suggests that athletes and coaches need to be challenged in knowing
when and how much a movement should be consciously attended to. This is exacerbated …

Risk-sensitivity and the mean-variance trade-off: decision making in sensorimotor control

AJ Nagengast, DA Braun… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Numerous psychophysical studies suggest that the sensorimotor system chooses actions
that optimize the average cost associated with a movement. Recently, however, violations of …

The role of variability in the control of the basketball dribble under different perceptual setups

RAM Robalo, AMFA Diniz, O Fernandes… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
When executing a sport‐specific movement, athletes cannot use all perceptual resources to
control their actions. The complexity of a basketball match, demands that individuals …