Outreach posts tagged as expertise
Relations between skill assessments of youth players, practice & play, and success in men's soccer
2018-05-04
Is being good at practice a transferable skill?
2017-10-17
[field_image_fid]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.
How ice hockey players and fans understand hockey talk
2014-05-14
[field_image_fid]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).
