Kuo-Ping Wang, a PhD student currently working with the Neurocognition and Action Group at Bielefeld University, is researching on questions related to attention, conscious control and performance, both in experts as well as during learning.
Continue reading “Cognitive control in expert performance?”The neurocognition of motor imagery practice
Warm thanks to all who made it possible to meet for three days in order to discuss and speculate about potential mechanisms and contributions of motor imagery to motor performance and motor learning. Special thanks to the co-organizers Stefan Vogt and Aymeric Guillot!
Continue reading “The neurocognition of motor imagery practice”AO, MI, AO+MI and cognitive performance
How does a combination of motor imagery and action observation (in comparison to motor imagery or action observation alone) affect cognitive performance? And how does this translate into motor performance?
Continue reading “AO, MI, AO+MI and cognitive performance”AO, MI, AOMI for motor learning
Action observation and motor imagery promote motor learning. But which one should we use during skill acquisition and refinement, or should we use both?
Continue reading “AO, MI, AOMI for motor learning”Is imagery worth it?
Does mental practice work? It does.
Continue reading “Is imagery worth it?”VR and Mental Training
It’s in press. An invited chapter on Virtual Reality and Mental Training as part of the book Advancements in Mental Skills Training edited by Maurizio Bertollo, Edson Filho and Peter Terry.
Continue reading “VR and Mental Training”Children, analogies, and motor learning
Together with Christopher Meier from the Sports and Education group here in Bielefeld, I’ve been working on the use of analogies in children. In his PhD project, he focused on the question how analogies influence motor learning, especially in skilled athletes (see here).
Looking at both their performance and their representation structures in motor memory, we recently published a study on the impact of analogy and explicit verbal instructions in junior tennis players (see here).
Continue reading “Children, analogies, and motor learning”Thanks FEPSAC 2019
Our RIO-Symposium on Motor Imagery during Action Observation was one of the first symposia of this year‘s FEPSAC Congress at the University of Münster in Germany. Continue reading “Thanks FEPSAC 2019”
Imagery in physical education
How can we use imagery for physical education such that it adds to motor learning, and such that it can be implemented straightforward in a physical education class?
Continue reading “Imagery in physical education”VR and Motor Learning
Is Virtual Reality the panacea it first seems? Continue reading “VR and Motor Learning”