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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Stories About Perception and Action Gone Wrong | |
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| Perceptual Errors | |
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| The Magnetic Hill | |
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| How do visual illusions distort perception and influence action? | |
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| The Farmers' Market | |
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| What are the roles of motor error and hypervigilance in unintended acceleration accidents? | |
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| The Grocery Store | |
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| How do population stereotypes shape our interactions with manufactured environments? | |
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| Push or Pull? | |
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| How do product designs influence people to perform specific actions? | |
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| Decision Errors | |
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| Friendly Fire | |
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| What role did decision errors play in the death of Patrick Tillman? | |
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| Method to His Bratness | |
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| Did John McEnroe's verbal abuse of line judges influence their decisions? | |
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| Choking Under Pressure | |
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| What changes in information processing cause athletes such as Jean Van de Velde to fail under pressure? | |
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| Turn Right at the Next Gorilla | |
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| What is inattention blindness, and what role does it play in common traffic accidents? | |
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| Action Errors | |
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| The Calculator | |
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| How can product designs accommodate Fitts' law? | |
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| The Gimme Putt | |
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| Can Schmidt's law be used to predict the accuracy of golf putts? | |
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| Pouring Coffee | |
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| How does the information-processing rate create a speed-accuracy trade-off? | |
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| Is The Bean Dizzy? | |
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| What do Spoonerisms reveal about motor control? | |
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| Adventures in Perception and Action | |
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| Fun With Numbers | |
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| Public Opinion Polls | |
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| What do central tendency, variability, and statistical significance mean in the context of motor control research? | |
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| Cutting Wood and Missing Putts | |
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| How are constant error, variable error, and absolute error useful for understanding motor control? | |
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| The Hot Hand | |
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| Do statistics support the existence of hot streaks in sports? | |
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| Perception in Action | |
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| Red Light, Green Light | |
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| What factors influence reaction time and its measurement? | |
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| Jumping the Gun | |
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| How can a reaction be distinguished from an anticipation? | |
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| Antilock Brakes | |
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| How does the complexity of a motor program influence reaction time? | |
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| Preventing Penalties and Batting Baseballs | |
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| How do athletes use temporal and spatial anticipation? | |
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| Craps and Weighted Bats | |
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| What role do perceptual illusions play in sport performance? | |
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| Attention | |
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| The Toad and the Centipede | |
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| Is an internal or external attentional focus better for improving performance? | |
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| The Preshot Routine | |
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| Why does a consistent mental preparation ritual benefit performance? | |
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| Gumbo | |
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| What are the limits of attentional capacity? | |
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| Fakes | |
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| What role does the psychological refractory period play in sport? | |
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| Motor Control | |
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| Websites and Silly Walks | |
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| How do redundancies help us solve motor problems? | |
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| The Curling Draw | |
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| What sport skills use open- and closed-loop systems of motor control? | |
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| Cool Papa Bell | |
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| When vision is interrupted, how does iconic memory guide motor tasks? | |
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| Moving Sidewalks and Beer Glasses | |
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| How does the end-state comfort effect influence movement planning? | |
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| The Tickle | |
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| How do motor commands influence sensory feedback during motor control? | |
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| The Point of No Return | |
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| Is there a point in time after which an initiated motor program cannot be stopped? | |
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| Forensic Motor Control | |
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| What are generalized motor programs, and what do keystroke dynamics reveal about them? | |
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| Party Tricks | |
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| How does the nervous system use functional linkages to coordinate movements? | |
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| Disappearing Act | |
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| What makes some coordination patterns more automatic than others? | |
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| Stories About Learning Motor Skills | |
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| Measuring Motor Learning | |
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| How You Get to Carnegie Hall | |
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| What is the best way to measure progress in motor learning? | |
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| The Babe | |
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| Can a general motor ability be defined and measured? | |
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| Learning to Win From Losing | |
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| Why is the learning-performance distinction important? | |
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| Zero-Sum Training | |
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| What is the practical impact of ineffective training methods? | |
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| Organizing Practice | |
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| But I Was Great on the Practice Range! | |
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| How does practice repetition influence performance and learning? | |
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| The Coach as a Dictionary | |
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| What roles does augmented feedback play in motor learning? | |
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| The Golfer's Little Helper | |
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| What elements of motor learning are neglected when we use mechanical training aids? | |
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| Skill Development | |
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| Bend It Like Becker | |
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| What types of models are best to observe when learning a skill? | |
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| Sport Snake Oils | |
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| Can visual training programs improve sport performance? | |
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| The Keypad | |
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| How do explicit and implicit memories influence skilled performance? | |
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| Wayne Gretzky | |
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| What role does skilled perception play in sport performance? | |
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| Skill Retention | |
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| Shooting two from the Line | |
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| How does the warm-up decrement affect repeated performances? | |
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| Like Riding a Bicycle | |
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| How are motor skills stored in memory? | |
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| H.M. | |
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| What does the amnesia suffered by Henry Gustav Molaison reveal about memory and motor skills? | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| About the Author | |