Divided into four sections - providing instruction and feedback, organizing effective practice, training high-level skills, and the theories and mechanisms underpinning skill acquisition - the book covers a full range of key topics, including:
the role of errors and rewards in motor learning
instructions, demonstrations and feedback
imagery in motor learning
constraints-based and self-directed learning
technique change, creativity training and visual gaze training
practicing under pressure
the neurophysiology of learning.
Based on the latest research, including chapters on emerging topics, and written by a global cast of world-leading experts, Skill Acquisition in Sport is an essential textbook for any kinesiology or sport science student taking skill acquisition, expertise development or motor learning classes.