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Podcast: The Perception & Action Podcast
Episode: Why Do We Lose Calibration of Perceptual-Motor Skill so Quickly and What Can We Do About It?
Description: Revisiting the topic of calibration in direct learning, with a specific focus on why we lose calibration when not practicing. The blessing and curse of having a high learning rate. Articles:Better with each throw—a study on calibration and warm-up decrement of real-time consecutive basketball free throws in elite NBA athletes A serial-position curve in high-performance darts: the effect of visuomotor calibration on throwing accuracy Why Professional Athletes Need a Prolonged Period of Warm-Up and Other Peculiarities of Human Motor Learning My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)