The Perception & Action Podcast - Sports Science & Psychology Talk

A discussion with Anders Ericsson, Professor of Psychology atFlorida State University and co-author of the new book: Peak: TheSecrets from the New Science of Expertise. We touch on topicsincluding purposeful vs deliberate practice, whether achievingautomaticity can hinder becoming an expert, whether skillacquisition is linear, being able to coach yourself, and adifferent role for genetics in skill acquisition. More information about my guest:https://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson.dp.htmlPeak: The Secrets from the New Science of Expertise More information:http://perceptionaction.com/MyResearch Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASUWeb pagePodcast Facebookpage (videos, pics, etc)Twitter: @Shakeywaits

News: What effect does mental fatigue have on sports performance?  Does fatigue change our ability to focus our attention, anticipate and make decisions on the field? Or does it just decrease or motivation to do all this?   Articles: Mental fatigue impairs soccer-specific decision-making skill Shifts in Attention During Mental Fatigue: Evidence From Subjective, Behavioral, Physiological, and Eye-Tracking Data  Stroop Task Demo   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Muck and the Mires – Tired of Losing Sleep Parting Gifts – Sleepy City via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Is adding virtual objects (e.g., the offside line in soccer or the first down line in football) to augment sports broadcasts always a good way to enhance a fan’s experience or can it be taken too far?  My ESPN K Zone rant! Articles/links: http://www.sportvision.com/media/espn-k-zone Augmenting Live Broadcast Sports with 3D Tracking Information Design and Implementation for Interactive Augmented Broadcasting System   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action The Above – You Make it Real Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Mark Anshell, Professor of Health & Human Performance at Middle Tennessee State University and author of the new book: “In Praise of Failure in Sport: The Value of Overcoming Mistakes to Achieve Optimal Performance Success”. We discuss why we need to change our conception of failure, the importance of failing for success in sports, fear of failure, using exercise as punishment, and how coaches can create environments that embrace failure. More information about my guest: http://mtweb.mtsu.edu/manshel/index.html   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

If your vehicle can detect you are about to collide with something how should it warn you? As it turns out, getting the human factors issues (e.g., timing, modality, level of information) correct is critical to getting a fast and appropriate response from the driver while at the same time keeping trust in the system high. Pressure-induced tunnel vision in sports (Time 22:55).   Articles: Collision warning timing, driver distraction, and driver response to imminent rear-end collisions in a high-fidelity driving simulator. Assessing the effectiveness of various auditory cues in capturing a driver's visual attention To go or not to go: Stimulus-response compatibility and pedestrian collision warnings in driving Comparison of visual, auditory and tactile warnings for rear-end collision prevention in driving. Driver reaction time to tactile and auditory rear-end collision warnings while talking on a cell phone. Looming auditory collision warnings for driving. A comparison of different informative vibrotactile for

The story of Coleman Griffith, the first psychologist to work with a professional sports team. Was he a hit with the Chicago Cubs in 1938? Or was it a big swing and a miss?   Articles/links: PSYCHOLOGY STRIKES OUT: Coleman R. Griffith and the Chicago Cubs   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Peter Fadde from Southern Illinois University. We touch on several topics related to training including perception-action coupling, part vs whole training and sport specificity. We also do a deep dive into VR use in sports, attempting to tackle the question: how real does virtual reality need to be?     More information about my guest: http://peterfadde.com/ http://ehs.siu.edu/ci/faculty-staff/faculty-all/fadde.php https://twitter.com/DrFadde   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

News: Can tests of general perceptual motor skills (e.g., agility, speed, eye-hand coordination) given to 7-11 year olds predict future participation and performance in sports?  Can neurofeedback training improve sports performance?   Articles: Sensorimotor Rhythm Neurofeedback Enhances Golf Putting Performance Can Perceptuo-Motor Skills Assessment Outcomes in Young Table Tennis Players (7–11 years) Predict Future Competition Participation and Performance? An Observational Prospective Study     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Glyptotheque – Street Mystic Ping Pong JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com  

Hurray for the 100th Episode of the Podcast! Can baseball pitchers overcome a lack of velocity by being less predictable?  How does entropy relate to success in sports? To See the Data, Figures & R Code from the Analysis Please Go To: http://perceptionaction.com/pitchentropy   Articles/links: The Relationship Between Visual Anticipation and Baseball Batting Game Statistics http://www.brooksbaseball.net/     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lame Drivers –Let Me Get Those Numbers Down Vegaenduro – High Speed Flash Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Denise Hill, Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. We discuss the experience of choking from the athlete’s point of view, whether we have been using the wrong definition of choking, how the effects of pressure are different for individual and team sports, and the importance of pre and post shot routines. More information about my guest: http://www.port.ac.uk/department-of-sport-and-exercise-science/staff/denise-hill.html https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Denise_Hill2 https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-denise-m-hill-cpsychol-7621386 https://twitter.com/psychskills   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

What new technologies are being developed to make driving safer?  Will they remedy all the problems of driver distraction?  Are we ready for an automated car to do the driving for us?  5 evidence-based tips for designing effective sports training (Time 18:24). Articles: Evaluation of Six Night Vision Enhancement Systems: Qualitative and Quantitative Support for Intelligent Image Processing Allocation of visual attention while driving with simulated augmented reality Towards real-time recognition of driver intentions Analysis of Human-Machine Cooperation When Driving with Different Degrees of Haptic Shared Control http://www.autoblog.com/2015/10/07/volvo-accept-liability-self-driving-car-crashes/?ncid=edlinkusauto00000015 Five evidence-based principles of effective practice and instruction   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action The Love Me Nots – I

What is the relationship between the hand you throw with and how you hold a bat? How do players choose which side to bat from? Is it better to have your dominant hand higher or lower? My analysis of Major League Baseball data trying to answer these questions. To See the Data, Figures & R Code from the Analysis Please Go To: http://perceptionaction.com/battinghand   Articles/links: Manual Laterality and Hitting Performance in Major League Baseball Hand and Eye Dominance in Sport: Are Cricket Batters Taught to Bat Back-to-Front? Speed differences between forehand and backhand in intermediate-level tennis players   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Cheap Time – Handyman Shearer – In My Hand Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Jordan Muraskin, post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University and co-inventor of deCervo. We discuss topics including his research on the brain activity that underlies fast decision making in sport, combining EEG and fmri to understand where and when neural activity differs as function of expertise, action inhibition, and using brain recording as a tool for scouting and training in sport.   More information about my guest: http://www.decervo.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordan_Muraskin https://twitter.com/deCervoProfile https://twitter.com/jsm2112   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCanyh_7yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFktZBCUmU0   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

News: How do soccer goalkeepers move in response to shots coming from different directions and with curved trajectories? How can fractions be used to explain this behavior? Which factors influence the way in which coaches give error feedback to gymnasts?  How important are things like motor experience and biomechanical knowledge?   Articles: Fractional-Order Information in the Visual Control of Lateral Locomotor Interception How Do Gymnastics Coaches Provide Movement Feedback in Training? http://www3.nd.edu/~msen/Teaching/UnderRes/FracCalc.pdf   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News Unfinished Symphony –Teenage Kicks via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

How can we be so good at hitting and catching accelerating objects when we can’t really judge acceleration? Do we use anticipation or just correct errors based on feedback? Articles: How Can People Be so Good at Intercepting Accelerating Objects if They Are so Poor at Visually Judging Acceleration? Visual timing in hitting an accelerating ball. Identifying the acceleration of visual targets. Visual information about moving objects.   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Stems – Slow Me Down Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Sam Sommers, Associate Professor of Psychology from Tufts University and co-author of the recently released book, This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon. We discuss topics including why great athletes don’t always make for great coaches, whether all kids should be getting trophies, and how sports often mirrors our everyday lives. More information about my guest: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/psychology/sommerslab/people/ http://brainonsports.com/ http://www.si.com/si-this-is-your-brain-on-sports-podcast   Other links: http://perceptionaction.com/why/ http://perceptionaction.com/recommended/     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freem

How much does talking or texting on a smart phone impair driving performance?  How can we get drivers’ attention back on the road?  How can we effectively bring the sports field into the lab by creating representative task designs? Are coaches impairing skill acquisition by oversimplifying sports skills? (Time 20:47) Links to articles discussed: http://about.att.com/story/smartphone_use_while_driving_grows_beyond_texting.html Interference between concurrent tasks of driving and telephoning A meta-analysis of the effects of cell phones on driver performance A meta-analysis of the effects of texting on driving http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html Examination of gaze behaviors under in situ and video simulation task constraints reveals differences in information pickup for perception and action Issues and challenges in developing representative tasks in sport  Monocular Optical Constraints on Collision Control   More information: http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research G

How important is nonverbal communication (e.g., hand gestures, high fives, using gaze) in sports? Why is a lot of the communication that occurs between athletes ineffective?   Articles/links: Intrateam communication and performance in doubles tennis Real-time communication during play: Analysis of team-mates’ talk and interaction Tactile Communication, Cooperation, and Performance: An Ethological Study of the NBA    More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Steve Wynn- We Don’t Talk About It Dazie Mae – A Far Point Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Dan McGehee, Director of the Transportation and Vehicle Safety Research Program in the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa. We discuss how driver behavior in a simulator compares to a real car, using black box recordings to understand how drivers react just before they crash, using instrumented vehicles to help reduce accidents by teen drivers, the transition to automated driving and his new program mycardoeswhat. More information about my guest: http://ppc.uiowa.edu/people/daniel-mcgehee https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel_McGehee https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-v-mcgehee-62aa657 https://mycardoeswhat.org/   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

News: How has research on the quiet eye manipulated the performer, environment and task constraints? What questions are still unanswered?  Does training a novice to have eye movements like an expert improve decision making?   Articles: The ‘Quiet Eye’ and Motor Performance: A Systematic Review Based on Newell’s Constraints-Led Model Perceptual Training in Beach Volleyball Defence: Different Effects of Gaze-Path Cueing on Gaze and Decision-Making   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Sleep Out – Three Towns JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com