How do habit and skill relate to one another? Among many traditions of habit research, we
suggest that'slip-of-action'habits are the type most likely to relate to motor skill. Habits are …

Background Implicit motor learning is considered to be particularly effective for learning
sports-related motor skills. It should foster movement automaticity and thereby facilitate …

We present a synthetic theory of skilled action which proposes that cognitive processes
make an important contribution to almost all skilled action, contrary to influential views that …

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 …

Habits are the topic of a venerable history of research that extends back to antiquity, yet they
were originally disregarded by the cognitive sciences. They started to become the focus of …

A recent version of the view that aesthetic experience is based in empathy as inner imitation
explains aesthetic experience as the automatic simulation of actions, emotions, and bodily …

While the experience of flow is often described in attentional terms—focused concentration
or task absorption—specific cognitive mechanisms have received limited interest. We …

Clutch performance is improved performance under pressure. However, little research has
examined the psychological state experienced by athletes in these situations. Therefore, this …

We are all guided by thousands of norms, but how did our capacity for normative cognition
evolve? I propose there is a deep but neglected link between normative cognition and …

From our everyday commuting to the gold medalist's world-class performance, skillful
actions are characterized by fine-grained, online agentive control. What is the proper …