expertise | Motor Skills Laboratory

Relations between skill assessments of youth players, practice & play, and success in men's soccer

Submitted by nicolah on 4. May 2018 - 9:45

Academy, male youth soccer players were evaluated at different time points by coaches and rated in terms of technical, tactical, physical and creative skill. These players also provided estimates of hours accumulated in soccer activities that were either coach-led (practice) or self-led (what we term play). Coaches assessment of players at ~14 years was related to whether they would be offered youth professional contracts (at age 16 yr), but not adult contracts at age 19 yr.

Author:

Nicola Hodges

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Coach ratings of skills and their relations to practice, play and successful transitions from youth-elite to adult-professional status in soccer

Is being good at practice a transferable skill?

Submitted by nicolah on 17. October 2017 - 12:45

Has it ever seemed like experts in one domain more easily become skilled in another? In this study, we were interested in whether having expertise in a specific domain – and the vast practice experience that comes with it – influences how experts choose to practice when learning new skills outside their area of expertise. The question of how to structure practice in order to maximize learning has received a lot of attention in motor learning research.

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Author:

April Karlinsky

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Learning from the experts: Gaining insights into best practice during the acquisition of three novel motor skills

How ice hockey players and fans understand hockey talk

Submitted by nicolah on 14. May 2014 - 12:03

Nicole Ong, in collaboration with Scott Sinnett (at the University of Hawaii) and other members of the Motor Skills Lab, recently had an experiment accepted for publication in Acta Psychologica. In this experiment, we wanted to explore how people understand action-related sentences and how this understanding might rely on the motor system (in addition to verbal and visual systems).

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Author:

Dr Keith Lohse

Reference:

A Test of Motor Skill-Specific Action Embodiment in Ice-hockey Players