This review provides an overview of a diverse, temporally distributed, body of literature
regarding the effects of conscious attention to movement. An attempt is made to unite the …

Background The number of athletes engaged in climbing sports has risen. Specific physical
and psychological skills are required. The objective of this review was to determine factors …

Nonlinear Pedagogy is a powerful paradigm for understanding human movement and for
designing effective teaching, coaching and training programmes in sport, exercise and …

Research has found an advantage for an external focus of attention in motor control and
learning; instructing subjects to focus on the effects of their actions, rather than on body …

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 …

In this chapter, we describe the research to date conducted on the phenomenon of choking
under pressure. We begin by defining what we mean by" choking under pressure." We also …

This study examined motivational effects of feedback on motor learning. Specifically, we
investigated the influence of social-comparative feedback on the learning of a balance task …

Objectives The aim of this position paper is to discuss the role of affect in designing learning
experiences to enhance expertise acquisition in sport. The design of learning environments …

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) …

We tested the predictions of Attentional Control Theory (ACT) by examining the effect of
anxiety on attention control and the subsequent influence on both performance effectiveness …