

The Perception & Action Podcast
Rob Gray
Exploration of how psychological research can be applied to improving performance, accelerating skill acquisition and designing new technologies in sports and other high performance domains. Hosted by Rob Gray, professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, the podcast will review basic concepts and discuss the latest research in these areas.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Apr 5, 2016 • 12min
24C – A Constraints-Led Approach to the Quiet Eye, Gaze Training in Beach Volleyball
News: How has research on the quiet eye manipulated the performer, environment and task constraints? What questions are still unanswered? Does training a novice to have eye movements like an expert improve decision making?
Articles:
The ‘Quiet Eye’ and Motor Performance: A Systematic Review Based on Newell’s Constraints-Led Model
Perceptual Training in Beach Volleyball Defence: Different Effects of Gaze-Path Cueing on Gaze and Decision-Making
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
Sleep Out – Three Towns
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Bad News
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Apr 4, 2016 • 9min
24B - Sport Science Shorts: Bobbing, Weaving & Deceptive Actions
Why do even the most elite athletes sometimes get completely fooled by a killer step-over move in soccer, head fake in football, or cross-over dribble in basketball? Where should an athlete look on their opponent’s body to avoid being deceived? What brain areas are involved in the perception of deceptive actions?
Articles/links:
Detecting Deception in Movement: The Case of the Side-Step in Rugby
Deceptive Body Movements Reverse Spatial Cueing in Soccer
Fooling the kickers but not the goalkeepers: behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of fake action detection in soccer
Brain regions concerned with the identification of deceptive soccer moves by higher-skilled and lower-skilled players
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw8u0aEVJgo
http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0kLC-pridI
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
Pheasant – Fools Gold
The Above – You Make it Real
Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy
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Mar 31, 2016 • 24min
24A– Interview with Natasha Merat, ITS, University of Leeds
A discussion with Natasha Merat, Associate Professor in the Institute for Transport Studies at The University of Leeds. We discuss topics including detecting driving distraction, the effects of fatigue on driving and how to keep a driver in the loop with an automated vehicle.
More information about my guest:
http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/people/n.merat
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-merat-879b7844
https://twitter.com/NatashaMerat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7FMs9L_vM
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

Mar 29, 2016 • 26min
24 – Attention & Memory in Driving/Tactical Creativity in Sports
How much attention is required to drive effectively? Is driving a manual transmission really done automatically? How well do we remember the details of driving accidents?
What is the best way to develop tactical creativity and divergent thinking in young athletes? (Time 20:35)
Links to articles discussed:
How automatic is manual gear shifting?
Driving without awareness: The effects of practice and automaticity on attention and driving
Driving with the wandering mind: the effect that mind-wandering has on driving performance
Do familiarity and expectations change perception?
Forgetting Near-Accidents: The Roles of Severity, Culpability and Experience in the Poor Recall of Dangerous Driving Situations
Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction: An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory
Planting misinformation in the human mind: A 30-year investigation of the malleability of memory
Two strategies for learning a route in a driving simulator
Development of tactical creativity in sports
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
Jacuzzi Boys – Automatic Jail
Six Star General – I Remember
The Yolks - Wandering
Kelley Stoltz – The Memory Collector
Josh Woodward – Memory Replaced
Steadman – Create Your Fate
Anitek – Divergent Thought
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Mar 28, 2016 • 7min
23E- Sport Science Shorts: Color Blindness in Athletes & Fans
Are athletes with color vision deficiencies less likely to make it to the elite levels of sport? If they do get there, will their color blindness effect their performance or determine which position they play?
Articles/links:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25372806/nfl-we-didnt-account-for-color-blindness-with-color-rush-jerseys
Colour blind cricketers and snowballs
Abnormal colour vision is a handicap to playing cricket but not an insurmountable one
One of Australia's greatest cricketers was a protanope: a genetic detective story solved with the help of Schmidt's sign
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
Gal Pals- Gold Rush
Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy
via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Mar 24, 2016 • 24min
23D– Interview with Nick Reed, Transport Research Lab
A discussion with Nick Reed, Academy Director at the Transport Research Lab in the UK. We discuss topics including ball catching, distracted driving, new in car technologies, the human factors and ethical challenges associated driverless vehicles, and the real world mobility lab TRL is using to study the future of transportation.
More information about my guest:
http://trl.co.uk/academy-future-view/our-people/prof-nick-reed/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-reed-a0aa0010
https://twitter.com/nreed_trl
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=n9yvnLAAAAAJ&hl=en
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

Mar 22, 2016 • 10min
23C – Letting it Happen vs Making it Happen/Challenging the Truths of Motor Learning
News: What exactly does it mean to be in “the flow” as an athlete? Can we make it happen or do we just need to let it happen? Is it really true that skill acquisition is a single process that strives for low variability and is constrained by the speed-accuracy tradeoff?
Articles:
Psychological states underlying excellent performance in professional golfers: “Letting it happen” vs. “making it happen”
Computations underlying sensorimotor learning
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
via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Mar 21, 2016 • 9min
23B - Sport Science Shorts: Transfer from Cricket to Baseball
Which is harder: hitting a baseball or cricket ball? Will Kieran Powell be successful in his attempt to transfer between the two sports?
Articles/links:
The Perceptual Illusion of Baseball's Rising Fastball and Breaking Curveball
Visual judgements and misjudgements in cricket and the art of flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYMhT_wgBwE&index=108&list=PLCc9T1oeaK1548na0ELb-4Q6urloNqEjG
http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/02/12/strike-zone-podcast-kieran-powell-cricket-west-indies
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
Paul Collins – Different Kind of Girl
Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy
via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Mar 17, 2016 • 38min
23A– Interview with Keith Lohse, Auburn, Motor Learning & Rehabilitation
A discussion with Keith Lohse, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the Rehabilitation Informatics Lab at Auburn University. We discuss topics including internal vs external focus of attention, the role of engagement in learning, physical therapy and problems with data analysis in skill acquisition research.
More information about my guest:
https://sites.google.com/site/appliedmotor/home
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Keith_Lohse
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-lohse-53517485
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

Mar 15, 2016 • 27min
23 – Gap Acceptance in Driving/Pain Perception in Athletes
How do drivers decide whether or not it is safe to make a turn in front of an oncoming car or overtake and pass a more slowly moving vehicle? Why are these situations so dangerous?
Do athletes have a higher tolerance for pain than non-athletes? (Time: 20:57)
Motion aftereffect demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_jYmbke14
Links to articles discussed:
Processes and countermeasures in overtaking road accidents
Multidisciplinary in-depth investigations of head-on and left- turn road collisions
Factors influencing driver’s left turn decisions
Scaling of relative velocity between vehicles
Perceptual-motor control strategies for left-turn execution
Risky driving behavior: a consequence of motion adaptation for visually guided motor action
Perceptual Processes Used by Drivers During Overtaking in a Driving Simulator
An Affordance-Based Approach to Visually Guided Overtaking
Pain perception in athletes compared to normally active controls: A systematic
review with meta-analysis
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 Monitors – Turn it On
Wheels of Fire – Turning into You
J Burn – Waiting
The Wingdale Community Singers – Passing Stranger
Haji Mike – Pain Pain Gain Gain
Eric & Magill – I Feel Your Pain
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