News: Can tests of general perceptual motor skills (e.g., agility, speed, eye-hand coordination) given to 7-11 year olds predict future participation and performance in sports?  Can neurofeedback training improve sports performance?   Articles: Sensorimotor Rhythm Neurofeedback Enhances Golf Putting Performance Can Perceptuo-Motor Skills Assessment Outcomes in Young Table Tennis Players (7–11 years) Predict Future Competition Participation and Performance? An Observational Prospective Study     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Glyptotheque – Street Mystic Ping Pong JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com  

Hurray for the 100th Episode of the Podcast! Can baseball pitchers overcome a lack of velocity by being less predictable?  How does entropy relate to success in sports? To See the Data, Figures & R Code from the Analysis Please Go To: http://perceptionaction.com/pitchentropy   Articles/links: The Relationship Between Visual Anticipation and Baseball Batting Game Statistics http://www.brooksbaseball.net/     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lame Drivers –Let Me Get Those Numbers Down Vegaenduro – High Speed Flash Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Denise Hill, Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. We discuss the experience of choking from the athlete’s point of view, whether we have been using the wrong definition of choking, how the effects of pressure are different for individual and team sports, and the importance of pre and post shot routines. More information about my guest: http://www.port.ac.uk/department-of-sport-and-exercise-science/staff/denise-hill.html https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Denise_Hill2 https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-denise-m-hill-cpsychol-7621386 https://twitter.com/psychskills   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

What new technologies are being developed to make driving safer?  Will they remedy all the problems of driver distraction?  Are we ready for an automated car to do the driving for us?  5 evidence-based tips for designing effective sports training (Time 18:24). Articles: Evaluation of Six Night Vision Enhancement Systems: Qualitative and Quantitative Support for Intelligent Image Processing Allocation of visual attention while driving with simulated augmented reality Towards real-time recognition of driver intentions Analysis of Human-Machine Cooperation When Driving with Different Degrees of Haptic Shared Control http://www.autoblog.com/2015/10/07/volvo-accept-liability-self-driving-car-crashes/?ncid=edlinkusauto00000015 Five evidence-based principles of effective practice and instruction   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action The Love Me Nots – I Blame You The Cynics – The Warning The Party Faithful – Safe Distance The Spectacular Fantastic – I Do it All for You Fgo70 - Five six seven via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com  

What is the relationship between the hand you throw with and how you hold a bat? How do players choose which side to bat from? Is it better to have your dominant hand higher or lower? My analysis of Major League Baseball data trying to answer these questions. To See the Data, Figures & R Code from the Analysis Please Go To: http://perceptionaction.com/battinghand   Articles/links: Manual Laterality and Hitting Performance in Major League Baseball Hand and Eye Dominance in Sport: Are Cricket Batters Taught to Bat Back-to-Front? Speed differences between forehand and backhand in intermediate-level tennis players   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Cheap Time – Handyman Shearer – In My Hand Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Jordan Muraskin, post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University and co-inventor of deCervo. We discuss topics including his research on the brain activity that underlies fast decision making in sport, combining EEG and fmri to understand where and when neural activity differs as function of expertise, action inhibition, and using brain recording as a tool for scouting and training in sport.   More information about my guest: http://www.decervo.com/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordan_Muraskin https://twitter.com/deCervoProfile https://twitter.com/jsm2112   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCanyh_7yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFktZBCUmU0   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

News: How do soccer goalkeepers move in response to shots coming from different directions and with curved trajectories? How can fractions be used to explain this behavior? Which factors influence the way in which coaches give error feedback to gymnasts?  How important are things like motor experience and biomechanical knowledge?   Articles: Fractional-Order Information in the Visual Control of Lateral Locomotor Interception How Do Gymnastics Coaches Provide Movement Feedback in Training? http://www3.nd.edu/~msen/Teaching/UnderRes/FracCalc.pdf   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News Unfinished Symphony –Teenage Kicks via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

How can we be so good at hitting and catching accelerating objects when we can’t really judge acceleration? Do we use anticipation or just correct errors based on feedback? Articles: How Can People Be so Good at Intercepting Accelerating Objects if They Are so Poor at Visually Judging Acceleration? Visual timing in hitting an accelerating ball. Identifying the acceleration of visual targets. Visual information about moving objects.   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Stems – Slow Me Down Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A discussion with Sam Sommers, Associate Professor of Psychology from Tufts University and co-author of the recently released book, This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon. We discuss topics including why great athletes don’t always make for great coaches, whether all kids should be getting trophies, and how sports often mirrors our everyday lives. More information about my guest: http://www.ase.tufts.edu/psychology/sommerslab/people/ http://brainonsports.com/ http://www.si.com/si-this-is-your-brain-on-sports-podcast   Other links: http://perceptionaction.com/why/ http://perceptionaction.com/recommended/     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: robgray@asu.edu   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Lo Fi is Hi Fi - I’m on a Talk Show Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org

How much does talking or texting on a smart phone impair driving performance?  How can we get drivers’ attention back on the road?  How can we effectively bring the sports field into the lab by creating representative task designs? Are coaches impairing skill acquisition by oversimplifying sports skills? (Time 20:47) Links to articles discussed: http://about.att.com/story/smartphone_use_while_driving_grows_beyond_texting.html Interference between concurrent tasks of driving and telephoning A meta-analysis of the effects of cell phones on driver performance A meta-analysis of the effects of texting on driving http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html Examination of gaze behaviors under in situ and video simulation task constraints reveals differences in information pickup for perception and action Issues and challenges in developing representative tasks in sport  Monocular Optical Constraints on Collision Control   More information: http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action The Mind Orchestra – Really Like Your Phone Robin Grey – Looking for Distraction- Poets of ELAN – I Won’t Call It Reigning Sound – Call Me Number 1 The Monitors - No Callback Twin Atlas – Calling For You Lo Fi is Sci Fi – Behold! The New Design Christian Bland & The Revelators – Emotionless Man via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com