Effective motor performance is important for surviving and thriving, and skilled movement is
critical in many activities. Much theorizing over the past few decades has focused on how …

Expert decision-making can be directly assessed, if sport action is understood as an
expression of embedded and embodied cognition. Here, we discuss evidence for this claim …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

The paper is devoted to the review of the coherence resonance phenomenon in excitable
neural networks. In particular, we explain how coherence can be measured and how noise …

Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while
others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an …

It is well accepted that repeatedly imagining oneself acting without any overt behavior can
lead to learning. The prominent theory accounting for why imagery practice is effective …

What makes an expert? What strategies do they use? If you're an expert in one domain, are
you more likely to become an expert in a second? In examining questions like these …

Background: Emotion regulation (ER) is an internal process through which a person
maintains a comfortable state of arousal by modulating one or more aspects of emotion. The …

Abstract Events like the World Championships in athletics and the Olympic Games raise the
public profile of competitive sports. They may also leave us wondering what sets the …

Although sport is played with the body, it is won in the mind. Inspired by this idea, the second
edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive critical introduction to sport and …