
569 – Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Chaps 6-7 (JC 62)
Join Andrew, Marianne, and me as we look at Chapters 6 and 7 from Gibson's "1979 book": The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Links:...
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Exploration of how psychological research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition and designing new technologies in sports and other high performance domains....

Join Andrew, Marianne, and me as we look at Chapters 6 and 7 from Gibson's "1979 book": The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Links:...

A discussion with Andrew Wilson about representations? What are they exactly? Why do people propose we need them? Can we really have a non-r...

How can we understand the cognition involved in route previewing (for example, as is commonly used in rock climbing and alpine skiing) and u...

Join Andrew, Marianne, and me as we discuss Chapter 5 from Gibson's "1979 book": The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. What is the a...

Looking at Chapters 3 and 4 from Gibson's "1979 book": The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Links: The Ecological Approach to Visual...

Looking at decision-making from an ecological perspective. From a mental event that follows perception and precedes action to a phenomenon t...

Join Andrew, Marianne, and me as we start a new book. Looking at Chapters 1 and 2 from Gibson's "1979 book": The Ecological Approach to Visu...

Continuing the journey in understanding the Ecological approach to cognition by looking at Tony Chemero's book: Radical Embodied Cognitive S...

Looking at an ecological dynamics account of the experience of flow as a way to illustrate some of the key concepts in understanding the eco...

What the heck does the brain do in Ecological Dynamics, if it isn't computing, processing, or representing? An introduction to the concept o...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapter 26 from Michae...

Is it true that there is no cognition in the ecological approach to skill? No, of course not. In this episode, I want to start a series of e...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 24 and 25 fro...

556 – State of the Podcast An update on the future of the podcast moving into 2026. http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 22 and 23 fro...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 20 and 21 fro...

I am joined by Bertrand Théraulaz and Prashant Patel to discuss the Motor Signatures used to identify an athlete's intrinsic dynamics or pre...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 17-19 from Mi...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 15 and 16 fro...

A smorgasbord of stuff to celebrate my 550 th episode "milestone"! 3 new books!! A webinar and workshop. Ways to organize a workshop. And ha...

I am joined by Shawn Myszka from Emergence to talk about our newly released book (w// Tyler Yearby) - Enhancing skill in American football:...

A look at a couple studies examining the effect of focus of attention on performance. How does focus of attention affect good and bad moveme...

How effective are coaches at designing and adapting constraints? Which has more impact: manipulating informational/verbal constraints or oth...

How does the quality and quantity of search for a movement solution differ for linear and nonlinear training approaches? Is it the case that...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 13 and 14 fro...

A few personal updates and a preview of my next book: The Advanced Ecological Approach to Skill Development: Getting More Out of the CLA Lin...

Revisiting the topic of calibration in direct learning, with a specific focus on why we lose calibration when not practicing. The blessing a...

How quickly does a skill decay if we don't practice? How does it depend on factors such as complexity? What are the best ways to maintain sk...

What is Simplexity? How does it relate to Task Simplification? And a look at another study providing evidence against the fundamentals first...

How does search in task and joint space (for an interception task) differ in blocked and random practice conditions? Articles: Random and Bl...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 11 and 12 fro...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson to discuss chapters 9 and 10 from Michael Turvey's bo...

How do basketball shots differ when practicing unopposed vs against a defender? Does playing 1 vs 1 take a good "slice" or sample of the com...

An interview with Tom Parry from Butler University to discuss his new paper looking at the value of opposed vs unopposed practice in ecologi...

Does "it depend" when choosing between using a nonlinear vs linear pedagogy approach to coaching? Do some learners benefit from a prescripti...

A review of the paper: "The Distance Effect in Focus of Attention: Spatial or Temporal Distance?" by Kevin Becker and colleagues. What matte...

An interview with Randy Sullivan and Frans Bosch to discuss Randy's new book "The Integrated Anatomy Pitching". The science of movement vari...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 7 and 8 from...

An interview with Simon Schröttle, author of Revolution in Soccer: The Perfect Practice, discussing using the CLA in soccer coaching. Links:...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson and Marianne Davies to discuss chapters 5 and 6 from...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson to discuss chapters 3 and 4 from Michael Turvey's boo...

How can we assess and measure an athlete's progress when you use an ecological approach? How do we know whether what we are doing is working...

On another edition of the Perception-Action journal club, I am joined by Andrew Wilson to discuss chapters 1 and 2 from Michael Turvey's boo...

Do Balance Bikes lead to more functional variability in postural control when learning to ride a bike? Do they help support the transition f...

Does adding more variability to practice conditions aid the process of education of attention? Can we predict the trajectory through informa...

A look at a new study with powerlifters comparing performance when instructed to lift the bar at "maximum velocity" versus a specific veloci...

Can we predict sports injury by monitoring transition points between attractors states of a complex system, or, in other words, points of in...

Variability of practice helps motor learning. That is an undeniable fact. But let's consider some of the subtleties: what are the different...

A brief personal update and update on the podcast before I break for the holidays 😊 More information: Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in A...

A discussion with Mel O'Connor and Jack Woodburn from Okkulo Ltd. Links: https://www.okkulo.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)...