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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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.
Marcos Daou +7 more
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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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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
Judith Neugebauer +2 more
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Practice under Psychological Pressure and Attention Focusing on the Learning Billiard Shot [PDF]
رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2019 Psychological states affect focus of attention and play a mediating role in its effect on motor performance and learning. The present study investigated the effect of practice under psychological pressure and attention focusing with instruction on ...
Mahdiyeh Gharelar +2 more
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Action-Specific Perception in Internal and External Attention Focus Conditions [PDF]
رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2017 The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between performance and the perception of size of target under internal and external attention focus conditions as well as the relationship between the initial perception of the size of target and
Borhanaldin Ghari +2 more
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Decoding the internal focus of attention [PDF]
Neuropsychologia, 2012 The significance of the recent introduction to cognitive neuroscience of multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) is that, unlike univariate approaches which are limited to identifying magnitudes of activity in localized parts of the brain, it affords the detection and characterization of patterns of activity distributed within and across multiple brain ...
Jarrod A, Lewis-Peacock +1 more
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Peripheral cues and gaze direction jointly focus attention and inhibition of return [PDF]
, 2015 Centrally presented gaze cues typically elicit a delayed inhibition of return (IOR) effect compared to peripheral exogenous cues. We investigated whether gaze cues elicit early onset IOR when presented peripherally.
Hudson, Matthew, Skarratt, Paul A.
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Tracking Gaze and Visual Focus of Attention of People Involved in Social Interaction [PDF]
, 2017 The visual focus of attention (VFOA) has been recognized as a prominent conversational cue. We are interested in estimating and tracking the VFOAs associated with multi-party social interactions.
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Vision outside the focus of attention [PDF]
Perception & Psychophysics, 1990 We investigated the relationship between focal attention and a feature-gradient detection that is performed in a parallel manner. We found that a feature gradient can be detected without measurable impairment of performance even while a concurrent form-recognition task is carried out.
J, Braun, D, Sagi
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