The Perception & Action Podcast
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567 – An Ecological Account of Previewing and Using Advance Information
15 mins; March 30, 2026
566 – Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Chaps 5 (JC 61)
81 hours 34 mins; March 23, 2026
565 – Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Chaps 3-4 (JC 60)
66 hours 36 mins; March 17, 2026
564 – Ecological Cognition IV: Decision Making
16 mins; March 10, 2026
563 – Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (JC 59)
78 hours 31 mins; March 02, 2026
562 – Ecological Cognition III: Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (part 1)
13 mins; February 23, 2026
561 – An Ecological Dynamics Account of Flow in Sport
13 mins; February 16, 2026
560 – Ecological Cognition II: Resonance
20 mins; February 09, 2026
559 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapter 26 (JC58)
72 hours 14 mins; February 02, 2026
558 – The Ecological Approach to Cognition: An Introduction
7 mins; January 26, 2026
557 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 24-25 (JC57)
68 hours 22 mins; January 12, 2026
556 – State of the Podcast
12 mins; December 16, 2025
555 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 22-23 (JC56)
90 hours 36 mins; December 02, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 20-21 (JC55)
60 hours 16 mins; November 10, 2025
Motor Signatures & Action Types, Bertrand ThΓ©raulaz and Prashant Patel
82 hours 28 mins; November 04, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 17-19 (JC54)
64 hours 55 mins; October 13, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 15 and 16 (JC53)
72 hours 25 mins; September 29, 2025
Books, books, and more books. Webinars, workshops, and responses to YouTube comments!
26 mins; September 23, 2025
549 – Enhancing Skill in American Football, Shawn Myszka
42 mins; September 15, 2025
548 – Focus of Attention, the Structure of Variability & Placebo Effects
13 mins; September 08, 2025
547 – How Effective are Coaches at Designing and Adapting Practice in the CLA?
13 mins; August 11, 2025
How Do Nonlinear & Linear Training Influence the Quantity and Quality of Search for a Movement Solution
18 mins; August 05, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 13 and 14 (JC52)
68 hours 33 mins; July 28, 2025
15 mins; July 21, 2025
Why Do We Lose Calibration of Perceptual-Motor Skill so Quickly and What Can We Do About It?
13 mins; July 14, 2025
542 – Training to Maintain, Skill Retention & Decay
13 mins; July 08, 2025
Task Simplification, Simplexity & Further Evidence Against the Need for Fundamentals
20 mins; June 30, 2025
How Does Variability of Practice Influence Search?
14 mins; June 23, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 11 and 12 (JC51)
80 hours 11 mins; June 17, 2025
538 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 9 and 10 (JC49)
66 hours 7 mins; May 19, 2025
Representative Design & Sampling from the Competitive Environment
18 mins; May 06, 2025
536 – The value of opposed and unopposed practice, Tom Parry
51 mins; April 28, 2025
535 – Individual Differences in the Benefits of Linear and Non-Linear Pedagogy Approach to Skill Training
24 mins; April 21, 2025
534 – Is the Distance Effect Found in Focus of Attention Research Spatial or Temporal?
14 mins; April 14, 2025
The Integrated Anatomy of Pitching, Randy Sullivan
60 hours 21 mins; April 07, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 7 and 8 (JC49)
89 hours 11 mins; March 31, 2025
The Constraints Led Approach to Soccer Coaching, Simon SchrΓΆttle
33 mins; March 24, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 5 and 6 (JC48)
81 hours 43 mins; March 17, 2025
Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 3 and 4 (JC47)
86 hours 12 mins; March 04, 2025
Assessing Progress in the Ecological Approach: The Method of Progessive Constraints
8 mins; February 24, 2025
527 – Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, Chapters 1 and 2 (JC46)
72 hours 22 mins; February 17, 2025
Why are Balance Bikes More Effective for Learning to Ride than Bikes with Training Wheels? A Variability Analysis
13 mins; February 03, 2025
Variability of Practice & Education of Attention
22 mins; January 28, 2025
Is it better to give a specific performance outcome target or one based on perception of effort?
11 mins; January 20, 2025
Critical Fluctuations as an Early Warning Signal of Sports Injuries: Proof of Concept
14 mins; January 14, 2025
522 – Variability of Practice – A Deeper Dive
19 mins; January 07, 2025
What's Up With Me & Where is the Podcast Headed?
5 mins; December 17, 2024
520 – Okkulo - A Training System for Manipulating Visual Constraints in Sports (JC 45)
40 mins; December 09, 2024
Replicating Key Evidence for Prospective Control in Ball Catching
18 mins; December 03, 2024
The Effects of Concussion on Movement Coordination
12 mins; November 25, 2024
517 – Still No Evidence for the Transfer of Generalized Perceptual-Cognitive Training to Sports Performance
22 mins; November 19, 2024
516 – Do Averaged, Group Data Accurately Capture & Represent Individual Movements Solutions?
15 mins; November 11, 2024
Experience & Focus of Attention: Effect of Focus of Attention When Using the Dominant vs Non-Dominant Hand in MMA
18 mins; November 04, 2024
How Does an Athlete's Prior Coordination Solution Influence Learning a New One?
13 mins; October 22, 2024
My NEW Book is here: Learning to be an "Ecological" Coach
15 mins; October 14, 2024
Active Inference and the Control of Action
16 mins; October 07, 2024
Applying the Predictive Processing Theory of Action Control to Practice Design in Sports
21 mins; September 30, 2024
Self-Organization, The Great Unknown: Preview of the 2024 Baseball Skill Acquisition Summit
34 mins; September 23, 2024
A Call for More Clarity on How to Use the CLA: The 3 Questions Paper
48 mins; September 16, 2024
Liveliness in Training and the CLA, Interview w Pete Blair, Texas State University
43 mins; September 09, 2024
Nonlinear vs Linear Pedagogy for Police Training. What learners need vs. what they want
15 mins; September 03, 2024
506 - Perceiving Higher Order Affordances in Sports & Fields of Safe Travel
18 mins; August 26, 2024
505 – Synergies, Equilibrium Points & Fascia
28 mins; August 19, 2024
Is There An Optimal Amount of Practice Variability for Learning That Depends on Skill Level?
13 mins; August 13, 2024
An Ecological Approach to Police Defensive Tactics Training (JC44)
77 hours 44 mins; July 29, 2024
A Framework for Using Virtual Reality (VR) in Sports, Luke Wilkins, LaTrobe University
40 mins; July 22, 2024
Kinesthetic Awareness Training to Support Skill Acquisition, Jo Shattuck PantherTec (JC43)
53 mins; July 15, 2024
Ask Me Anything (AMA)
72 hours 11 mins; July 08, 2024
An Ecological Approach to Training Sword Martial Arts w Sean Franklin (JC42)
65 hours 56 mins; July 01, 2024
Using a CLA to Encourage Exploration in Learning a Volleyball Serve
14 mins; June 24, 2024
"Throw Hard, Stay Healthy": Training to Increase Action Capacity in Baseball Pitchers W Ryan Crotin (JC41)
51 mins; June 17, 2024
Player Dynamics as a Measure of Skill
17 mins; June 10, 2024
An Ecological Approach to Submission Grappling/Jiu Jitsu Training w Greg Souders (JC40)
83 hours 10 mins; June 03, 2024
Preventing Arm Injuries in Baseball Pitchers by Harnessing Variability In Training (JC 39)
71 hours 29 mins; May 27, 2024
How Skill Shapes Functional Movement Variability& Exploration Tendencies
18 mins; May 20, 2024
An Ecological Approach to Physical Therapy, Rehab & Injury Prevention (JC38)
67 hours 50 mins; May 13, 2024
Comparing Different Methods for Training the Action Capacity of Countermovement Jump (CMJ) Performance
15 mins; May 06, 2024
Understanding Sport Injury from a Dynamical Systems Approach
19 mins; April 29, 2024
Interview with Alex Sarama, Transforming Basketball
50 mins; April 22, 2024
The Constraints-Led Approach 2024
25 mins; April 15, 2024
Do the classic motor learning effects (eg focus of attention, choice) apply to experts?
14 mins; April 08, 2024
Functional Variability in the Cricket Bowling Delivery
12 mins; April 01, 2024
Coach Education Workshops, My New Book Coming Soon
9 mins; March 18, 2024
On the Value of a Skill Acquisition Specialist
10 mins; March 11, 2024
The Effects of the Yips on Muscle Synergies in Throwing
21 mins; March 04, 2024
The Coaching Eye – How Reliably can Expert Coaches Observe Movement?
13 mins; February 26, 2024
Why are Some Affordances More Inviting than Others?
20 mins; February 19, 2024
Ecological Approach to Rowing
46 mins; February 05, 2024
A CLA to Coaching Cricket Bowling: Task Manipulations
8 mins; January 29, 2024
Freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom in joint action learning
15 mins; January 22, 2024
Relationship Between the Yips and Motor Imagery Ability
12 mins; January 15, 2024
Technique vs Skill
8 mins; January 08, 2024
Exploring Coaches' Experiences in Adopting a Nonlinear Approach to Skill Development
11 mins; January 01, 2024
CLA to Swim Coaching, Andrew Sheaff
33 mins; December 11, 2023
New Research Addressing Some of the Limitations of the Focus of Attention Literature
15 mins; December 04, 2023
Is Premature Theorizing Hurting Skill Acquisition Research, Rajiv Ranganathan & Andrew Driska
45 mins; November 20, 2023
The Legacy of Michael Turvey
18 mins; November 13, 2023
Individual Differences in the Magnitude & Variability of Muscle Load With Repetitive Action
15 mins; November 06, 2023
On the Usefulness of the Concept of "Muscle Memory" in Skill Acquisition
12 mins; October 30, 2023
Representative Learning Design & The Ecological Approach to Transfer of Training
49 mins; October 23, 2023