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 …

Considerable literature on the role of attentional focus in motor performance and learning
has accumulated for over two decades. We report the results of comprehensive meta …

Objectives Findings from the contemporary psychological and movement science literature
that appear to have implications for medical training are reviewed. Specifically, the review …

Over the past 15 years, research on focus of attention has consistently demonstrated that an
external focus (ie, on the movement effect) enhances motor performance and learning …

How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view—both in academia and in the
popular press—that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders …

We present here a comprehensive, neurocognitive model to account for the psychological
consequences of acute exercise. There is a substantial amount of disparate research and …

Two factors that have been shown to facilitate motor learning are autonomy support (AS)
and enhanced expectancies (EE) for performance. We examined the individual and …

Studies with young adults have shown that an external focus of attention (ie, on the
movement effect) results in more effective motor learning and greater automaticity than an …

The present study examined the hypothesis that feedback inducing an external focus of
attention enhances motor learning if it is provided frequently (ie, 100%) rather than less …

A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that
cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our …