Our work in this field focuses mainly on perceptual-cognitive skill and motor leanring. Ollie works as a coach developer supporting in these areas.
Perceptual-cognitive skill focuses on the ability of an individual to identify and process information, integrate it with existing knowledge and motor capabilities, and select and execute a response. Our work in this area focuses on:
- Anticipation and decision making in sport with a particular focus on cricket batting.
- Using virtual environments to test and train game understanding.
- Understanding how the context of the game can enhance anticipation.
- The interaction between visual and contextual information.
- Bayesian active inference approaches to understanding the role of the responder in anticipation skill.
Motor learning refers to processes involved in the acquisition of movement skills. Talent development considers these processes in the bigger picture of identifying and developing potential performers. Our main interests in this area include:
- Addressing the lack of research in talent ID and development for female athletes.
- Optimising talent development environments.
- Practice design.
- Coach understanding of the broader talent development process.
- Laterality in skill development.
- The applications of ecological dynamics to learning and performing in dance (Edel Quin's PhD).
- The interaction between levels of challenge, autonomy and motivation in learning movement skills (Dave Bright's PhD).