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The Perception & Action Podcast

Exploration of how psychological research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition and designing new technologies in sports and other high performance domains. Hosted by Rob Gray, professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, the podcast will review basic concepts and discuss the latest research in these areas.

Advice on Applying Ecological Dynamics in Coaching

15 mins; October 16, 2023

The Art & Science of Constraints-Based Coaching

19 mins; October 09, 2023

A Nonlinear Pedagogy Approach to Using Mental Imagery in Sports

15 mins; October 02, 2023

Preview of the 2023 Baseball Skill Acquisition Summit: Merging Physical Development & Baseball Skill

26 mins; September 25, 2023

Evidence Supporting the Ecological Approach to Skill Development

28 mins; September 18, 2023

Movement as Problem Solving

20 mins; September 11, 2023

Do Enhanced Expectations Help Us Under Pressure?

23 mins; September 04, 2023

How Much Progress Have We Made in Skill Acquisition and Where Do We Need to Go?

22 mins; August 28, 2023

An Applied Model for Using Variability in Practice

20 mins; August 21, 2023

Variability of Practice and Injury Risk

13 mins; August 14, 2023

Functional variability in the volleyball attack developed via the CLA

14 mins; August 07, 2023

The Myth of Contextual Interference & the Variability of Practice Effect?

22 mins; July 31, 2023

Do We Really Need to Learn The "Fundamentals" of a Skill Through Decomposition and Repetition First?

18 mins; July 24, 2023

How to Coach – An Integrated Framework

11 mins; July 17, 2023

On the Coach's Role in the CLA

15 mins; July 10, 2023

WTF is an Uncontrolled Manifold?! Andrew Wilson

54 mins; May 22, 2023

Coach Journeys: Drew Dunlop, Building a Basketball Laboratory

35 mins; May 15, 2023

Coach Journeys: Scott Sievewright, Finding Authenticity in an Ecological Approach to MMA

35 mins; May 08, 2023

Coach Journeys: Marianne Davies, Exploring the Ecological Approach from Horses to Rivers to Mountains

54 mins; May 01, 2023

Our New Book: CLA to Baseball Coaching, Randy Sullivan

40 mins; April 24, 2023

447 – Kicking Against Walls and Decision Making in Practice

29 mins; April 17, 2023

Learning to Do it "Right" by Practicing Doing it "Wrong"

17 mins; April 10, 2023

Coach Journeys: Wes Goodman, Biomechanics from the Lab to the Gym

53 mins; April 03, 2023

Coach Journeys: Kasey Crider, Finding Congruence with an Ecological Approach

53 mins; March 27, 2023

Sh*t About Movement You Should Know!, Tracy Hayes

39 mins; March 20, 2023

An Ecological Dynamics Approach to Measuring and Developing Collective Behavior, Job Fransen

38 mins; March 13, 2023

Knowing, Wayfinding, Corresponding & Guiding On and Off the Sports Field; Carl Woods

83 hours 10 mins; March 06, 2023

Coach Journeys: Greg Souders, Standard Jiu-Jitsu

49 mins; February 27, 2023

The Tyranny of Talent, Joe Baker

43 mins; February 20, 2023

Applying Ecological Dynamics to Physical Therapy, Martijn Lips & William Spinhoven

38 mins; February 13, 2023

Training Visual Capabilities in Sport, Zoe Wimshurst

39 mins; February 06, 2023

Coach Journeys: Craig Morris, Embracing Not-Knowing

57 mins; January 30, 2023

Perceiving the Affordances of Others

22 mins; January 23, 2023

Coach Journeys: Martijn Nijhoff, Dutch Baseball

40 mins; January 16, 2023

How Does Motivation Fit in an Ecological Approach to Skill?

14 mins; January 10, 2023

Applying the CLA to Coach Development, Matt Wood

41 mins; January 02, 2023

My NEW book is here, Learning to Optimize Movement: Harnessing the Power of the Athlete-Environment Relationship

18 mins; December 19, 2022

News and Notes

6 mins; December 12, 2022

How Should We Be Varying Information in Practice? Does it HAVE to be Specifying?

29 mins; December 05, 2022

On Planning, Adapting & Co-Designing Practice

18 mins; November 21, 2022

Letting the Body Find its Way: On the Role of Attention in Skilled Movement

14 mins; November 14, 2022

On Specificity, Representative Design & Whether the Game is Always the Best Teacher

28 mins; November 07, 2022

Kinematic Sequencing: Variability in the Kinetic Chain?

13 mins; October 31, 2022

Action Capacity vs Skill: Training to Expand the Field of Affordances

57 mins; October 24, 2022

Implicit Training to Reduce Injury Risk, Eline Nijmeijer and Anne Benjaminse

28 mins; October 17, 2022

Learning Multiple Movements in Parallel

26 mins; October 10, 2022

Intro to Ecological Psychology, Julia Blau and Jeff Wagman

61 hours 47 mins; October 03, 2022

Creativity & Motor Skills, Skill Acquisition Summit 22

46 mins; September 26, 2022

The Effect of Different S&C Training Methods on Reducing Risk for Knee Injury

20 mins; September 19, 2022

Linking Movement Analysis, S&C and Skill Training

17 mins; September 12, 2022

Practice Activity Analysis, Karl Aksum

38 mins; September 05, 2022

The Development of Motor Synergies & the Influence of Constraints

15 mins; August 29, 2022

Hysteresis in Movement Coordination

12 mins; August 22, 2022

An Ecological Approach to the Quiet Eye, Ben Franks

43 mins; August 15, 2022

Perceiving Affordances of Sports Equipment: Implications for Design & Fitting

28 mins; August 08, 2022

A Theoretical Framework for Describing Movement Variability

25 mins; August 01, 2022

How do Instructions Shape Search for a Movement Solution

15 mins; July 25, 2022

410 – Combined Effects of Variability and Errors in Practice Design

23 mins; July 04, 2022

Social & Cultural Constraints in Skill Development, James Vaughn

59 mins; June 27, 2022

Prescription, Focus of Attention Instructions & Movement Variability

31 mins; June 20, 2022

An Ecological Approach to Hockey Goaltending Practice Design

47 mins; June 13, 2022

406 – An Ecological Approach to Deception in Sports

56 mins; June 06, 2022

Ecological Approach to Practice Design in American Football

69 hours 17 mins; May 30, 2022

404 – Training Anticipation with Eye Movement Sonification

13 mins; May 23, 2022

Manipulating Ball Weight as a Constraint in Practice

19 mins; May 16, 2022

Regulating Motor Redundancy in Throwing

19 mins; May 09, 2022

Using Blur to Train Perceptual-Motor Skills

23 mins; May 02, 2022

JC #37: Skill Acquisition Theory & Coaching

97 hours 37 mins; April 25, 2022

Predicting Individual Differences in Motor Learning

44 mins; April 18, 2022

Decision Making IV: Debating Ecological vs Information Processing Approaches

5 mins; April 11, 2022

Reorganization of Action from Changing Task Constraints

14 mins; April 04, 2022

The Science of the Racer's Brain

61 hours 40 mins; March 28, 2022

Key Principles of the Ecological Approach to Skill

28 mins; March 21, 2022

Models of Motor Learning

30 mins; March 14, 2022

Reconciling Differential Learning and External Focus of Attention Findings

17 mins; March 07, 2022

What is the Role of "Memory" in the Ecological Approach to Skill?

61 hours 38 mins; February 28, 2022

Are "Advance Cues" Used for Predictive or Prospective Control?

22 mins; February 21, 2022

Movement & Skill Acquisition Ireland Webinar Series 2022

31 mins; February 15, 2022

Interview with Todd Hargrove, Playing with Movement, The Feldenkrais Method

42 mins; February 14, 2022

An Extended Challenge Point Framework for Practice Design

27 mins; February 07, 2022

Task Specific Devices & Soft Assemblies

19 mins; January 31, 2022

Decision Making III: Emergent, Mental Model Driven or Both?

34 mins; January 24, 2022

A 10 Commandments for an Ecological Approach to Skill

18 mins; January 17, 2022

Learning to Move with Pain: Affordances & Constraints

15 mins; January 10, 2022

Why I Switched Sides to the Ecological Approach

13 mins; January 03, 2022

Online vs Offline Information VS Direct vs Indirect Perception

13 mins; December 27, 2021

An Ecological Approach to Volleyball Coaching & Practice Design

62 hours 6 mins; December 20, 2021

Interview with Brian Bushway & Tom Izdebski from Acoustic Athletics, Learning to Use Auditory Information in Sports

51 mins; December 13, 2021

Journal Club #36: Making Isolated, At-Home Training More Representative

51 mins; December 06, 2021

Achieving Balance (and Integration?) in Skill Acquisition Research & Theory

20 mins; November 29, 2021

Nonlinear Pedagogy Revisited

8 mins; November 22, 2021

Why Ecological PLUS Dynamics? What is Metastable Attunement?

15 mins; November 15, 2021

Journal Club #35: Pursuing Further Education in Skill Acquisition for Coaches & Practitioners

72 hours 36 mins; November 08, 2021

My Book is Here! How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills

19 mins; November 01, 2021

Journal Club #34: An Ecological Approach to the Use of Film/Video Analysis in Coaching

89 hours 2 mins; October 25, 2021

An Ecological Approach to Basketball Practice Design and Coaching

49 mins; October 18, 2021

Interview with Andrew Wilson, The Ecological Learning Lab

55 mins; October 11, 2021

Analogy Instructions & Movement Coordination, Skill Acquisition Summit Preview

35 mins; October 04, 2021

Journal Club #33: An Ecological Approach to Martial Arts and MMA

82 hours 50 mins; September 27, 2021

Article Review: Do self-organization training methods better promote creativity

12 mins; September 20, 2021

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