Standing Long Jump Performance Is Enhanced When Using an External as Well as Holistic Focus of Attention: A Kinematic Study [PDF]
SensorsStanding long jump is known as one of the important skills in the success of athletes in most sports. In addition, one of the most effective factors that can affect standing long jump distance and kinematics is the focus of attention used by the athlete.
Esmaeel Saemi +4 more
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External focus of attention enhances arm velocities during volleyball spike in young female players [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different volleyball-specific attentional focus instructions on arm velocities of a volleyball spike in young female volleyball players using the Statistical Parametric Mapping method.
Lukáš Slovák +7 more
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Focus of Attention in Coach Instructions for Technique Training in Sports: A Scrutinized Review of Review Studies [PDF]
Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2023 Literature reports superior performance when focusing one’s attention during a movement on environmental effects of that movement (external focus, EF) compared to focusing on the moving body (internal focus, IF).
Inge Werner, Peter Federolf
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Putting Attention on the Spot in Coaching: Shifting to an External Focus of Attention With Imagery Techniques to Improve Basketball Free-Throw Shooting Performance [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Attentional focus is an area that has garnered considerable attention in the sport psychology and motor performance literature. This is unsurprising given that attentional focus has been directly linked to performance outcomes and is susceptible to ...
Kyle R. Milley +2 more
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The Time-Course of the Last-Presented Benefit in Working Memory: Shifts in the Content of the Focus of Attention [PDF]
Journal of Cognition, 2022 Working memory is a cognitive system responsible for maintaining information. It is often assumed to contain different states of accessibility of information, which is highest for an item held in the focus of attention.
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The positive impacts of external focus of attention on performance, fatigue, and affect on a fatiguing task [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCreating strategies to improve performance and delay fatigue is an important goal in the field of coaching and sports performance. These improvements are typically reached through training, nutritional, and psychological strategies.
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Focus of Attention in Voice Training [PDF]
Journal of Voice, 2022 The vast majority of motor learning studies investigating focus of attention have found that an external focus of attention (focusing on the effect of a movement) results in enhanced performance and learning, compared to an internal focus of attention (focusing on the body movement itself).
Treinkman M.
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The effect of virtual reality exposure therapy on focus of attention, self-criticism, and interpretation bias in university students with social anxiety [PDF]
Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2023 BACKGROUND: The present research aims to investigate the effectiveness of virtual reality exposure therapy on the focus of attention, self-criticism, and interpretation bias among university students with social anxiety.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present
Monir Ghasempeyvandi, Hajar Torkan
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Defining the Focus of Attention: Effects of Attention on Perceived Exertion and Fatigue.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2011 This manuscript presents two experiments designed to explore the effects of attention on perceived exertion and time to failure in a fatiguing athletic task. There were two major motivating factors for these experiments.
Keith eLohse, David E Sherwood
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Looking to Learn Better - Training of Perception-Specific Focus of Attention Influences Quiet Eye Duration but Not Throwing Accuracy in Darts [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020 Investigations of the association of focus of attention and quiet eye duration have shown mixed results. It is possible that when focusing on visuo-motor learning a more sensitive category system of instructions might be useful. The aim of this study was
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