Davies, Marianne and Owen, Robin and Gottwald, Victoria and Singh, Harjiv (2024) Harnessing the power of attention: Exploring 'focus of attention' theories, practice, and myths. In: Myths of Sport Performance. Sequoia. ISBN 9781914110382
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Abstract
The authors propose a more flexible approach to explain the varying functions of attentional focus. In this manner, directing attentional resources towards task relevant information in the environment can support a participant or athlete to identify more opportunities for action, improving decision making, and allowing the self-organisation of more accurate/efficient movement. For example, in a far aiming task such as golf, this might be the target hole and changing surface conditions leading up to it. In a team sport it might be scanning to become aware of, and influence, the movements of team and opposition players. In a proprioceptive task, this might be the arm motion relative to the torso in an artistic gymnastics floor routine. These nuances cannot be explained by either the constrained action hypothesis (Wulf et al., 2001) nor OPTIMAL theory (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016; 2021) alone.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Health and Sport Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Robin Owen |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2024 10:38 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2024 13:38 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4120 |
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