Skill Acquisition in Sport

Preface: The Science Behind Sport Skill Acquisition: What's New, What Stood the Test of Time and What Are the Future Challenges?

Section 1: Providing Instruction and Feedback

1. Enhancing Motor Skill Acquisition with Augmented Feedback

2. Changing Automatized Movement Patterns

3. Errors, rewards, and reinforcement in motor skill learning

4. Motor Imagery Practice and Skilled Performance in Sport: From Efficacy to Mechanisms

5. Further advances in implicit motor learning

Section 2: Organizing Effective Practice

6. Contextual Interference: New Findings, Insights, and Implications for Skill Acquisition

7. Self-controlled Learning: Current Findings, Theoretical Perspectives, and Future Directions

8. Learning together: Observation and other mechanisms which mediate shared practice contexts

9. Constraints-Led Learning in Practice: Designing effective learning environments

10. Operationalizing deliberate practice for performance improvement in sport

Section 3: High-level Skill Training

11. Sports training technologies: Achieving and assessing transfer

12. Models of game intelligence and creativity in sport: Implications for skill acquisition

13. Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise and Simulation-Based Training in Sport

14. Mental toughness training

15. Staying cool under pressure: Developing and maintaining emotional expertise in sport

Section 4: Mechanisms and Models of Skill Acquisition

16. Motor Skill learning and its Neurophysiology

17. Appropriate Failure to Create Effective Learning: Optimizing Challenge

18. Ecological Dynamics and Transfer from practice to performance in sport

19. The Development of skill and Interest in Sport