Attentional focus affects movement efficiency

KR Lohse, G Wulf, RLWA ITE - Skill acquisition in sport, 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Without doubt, motor behavior is subject to a variety of social-cognitive-affective influences
(Lewthwaite & Wulf, 2010a). For instance, the instructions or feedback given to learners not …

Optimizing rapid aiming behaviour: Movement kinematics depend on the cost of corrective modifications

J Lyons, S Hansen, S Hurding, D Elliott - Experimental Brain Research, 2006 - Springer
Recent studies have shown that the initial impulse associated with goal-directed aiming
movements typically brings the limb to a position short of the target. This is because target …

Optimization of movement: a dynamical systems approach to movement systems as emergent phenomena

AA Guccione, BT Neville, SZ George - Physical Therapy, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The term “movement system” has been defined as “represent (ing) the collection of systems
(cardiovascular, pulmonary, endocrine, integumentary, nervous, and musculoskeletal) that …

The effects of leg kick on swimming speed and arm-stroke efficiency in the front crawl

RP Silveira, FA de Souza Castro… - … journal of sports …, 2017 - journals.humankinetics.com
Purpose: To analyze the effects of swimming pace on the relative contribution of leg kick to
swimming speed and to compare arm-stroke efficiency (η F) assessed when swimming with …

A closer look into the multi‐layer structure of motivational intensity theory

M Richter - Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Drawing on the idea that humans aim to avoid wasting energy that is important for survival,
motivational intensity theory postulates that task difficulty and success importance determine …

Goal-directed aiming: Correcting a force-specification error with the right and left hands

D Elliott, M Heath, G Binsted, KL Ricker… - Journal of motor …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
In 2 experiments, the authors examined manual aiming asymmetries as well as the ability of
participants to adjust their aiming trajectories following an unexpected change to the inertial …

Initial skill acquisition of handrim wheelchair propulsion: a new perspective

RJK Vegter, S de Groot, CJ Lamoth… - … on Neural Systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To gain insight into cyclic motor learning processes, hand rim wheelchair propulsion is a
suitable cyclic task, to be learned during early rehabilitation and novel to almost every …

Predicting sagittal plane biomechanics that minimize the axial knee joint contact force during walking

RH Miller, SCE Brandon… - Journal of …, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Both development and progression of knee osteoarthritis have been associated with the
loading of the knee joint during walking. We are, therefore, interested in developing …

[HTML][HTML] The Effects of Climate Seasonality on Behavior and Sleeping Site Choice in Sahamalaza Sportive Lemurs, Lepilemur sahamalaza

I Mandl, M Holderied, C Schwitzer - International Journal of Primatology, 2018 - Springer
Temperature, rainfall, and resource availability may vary greatly within a single year in
primate habitats. Many primate species show behavioral and physiological adaptations to …

[HTML][HTML] Interpersonal coordination and individual organization combined with shared phenomenological experience in rowing performance: two case studies

L Seifert, J Lardy, J Bourbousson, D Adé… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The principal aim of this study was to examine the impact of variability in interpersonal
coordination and individual organization on rowing performance. The second aim was to …