Background Performance analysis research in association football has recently cusped a
paradigmatic shift in the way tactical behaviours are studied. Based on insights from system …

Expert decision-making can be directly assessed, if sport action is understood as an
expression of embedded and embodied cognition. Here, we discuss evidence for this claim …

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes
underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological …

Background: There is some apparent confusion regarding similarities and differences
between two popular physical education (PE) pedagogical frameworks, that is, the …

To understand the dynamic patterns of behaviours and interactions between athletes that
characterize successful performance in different sports is an important challenge for all sport …

Previous research has proposed that team coordination is based on shared knowledge of
the performance context, responsible for linking teammates' mental representations for …

This chapter provides an account of how expertise in sport is acquired, from the framework
of ecological dynamics. Ecological dynamics emphasizes the study of organism …

In sport performance, patterns in perceptions, actions, intentions, ideas, feelings, and
thoughts continuously emerge under environmental, task, and personal constraints. This …

The recent upsurge in “brain training and perceptual-cognitive training,” proposing to
improve isolated processes, such as brain function, visual perception, and decision-making …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the effects of manipulating relative positioning between
defenders (initial distance apart) on emergent decision-making and actions in a 1 vs. 2 …