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An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?

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An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think? / Gottwald, Vicky; Owen, Robin; Herrebroden, Henrik et al.
2024. Paper presented at FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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Gottwald, V, Owen, R, Herrebroden, H, Becker, K, Marchant, D & Simpson, T 2024, 'An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?', Paper presented at FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria, 15/07/24 - 19/07/24.

APA

Gottwald, V., Owen, R., Herrebroden, H., Becker, K., Marchant, D., & Simpson, T. (2024). An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?. Paper presented at FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria.

CBE

Gottwald V, Owen R, Herrebroden H, Becker K, Marchant D, Simpson T. 2024. An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?. Paper presented at FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria.

MLA

Gottwald, Vicky et al. An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?. FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 15 Jul 2024, Innsbruck, Austria, Paper, 2024.

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Gottwald V, Owen R, Herrebroden H, Becker K, Marchant D, Simpson T. An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?. 2024. Paper presented at FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria.

Author

Gottwald, Vicky ; Owen, Robin ; Herrebroden, Henrik et al. / An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?. Paper presented at FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Innsbruck, Austria.

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TY - CONF

T1 - An external focus enhances performance: is it as black and white as we think?

AU - Gottwald, Vicky

AU - Owen, Robin

AU - Herrebroden, Henrik

AU - Becker, Kevin

AU - Marchant, David

AU - Simpson, Thomas

PY - 2024/7/16

Y1 - 2024/7/16

N2 - Coaching instruction is one of the most effective methods of supporting athletes to learn, refine, and perform motor skills effectively. Whilst there is robust support for instructions that induce an external focus of attention, more recent research directions have begun to explore some of the outliers in the field. Suggested anomalies have included: situations where a salient external focus is absent or impractical, sports such as artistic gymnastics where proprioceptive information is important for task success and subsequently more congruent with an internal focus of attention, or situations where skill refinement or re-learning of a motor skill may be required. The purpose of the present symposium is to address some of the nuances and complexities of effective instruction, propose guidance for practitioners, and stimulate discussion for potential new directions within the focus of attention knowledge base.

AB - Coaching instruction is one of the most effective methods of supporting athletes to learn, refine, and perform motor skills effectively. Whilst there is robust support for instructions that induce an external focus of attention, more recent research directions have begun to explore some of the outliers in the field. Suggested anomalies have included: situations where a salient external focus is absent or impractical, sports such as artistic gymnastics where proprioceptive information is important for task success and subsequently more congruent with an internal focus of attention, or situations where skill refinement or re-learning of a motor skill may be required. The purpose of the present symposium is to address some of the nuances and complexities of effective instruction, propose guidance for practitioners, and stimulate discussion for potential new directions within the focus of attention knowledge base.

M3 - Paper

T2 - FEPSAC Congress 2024 - European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Y2 - 15 July 2024 through 19 July 2024

ER -