G WulfSummaryAffiliation: University of Nevada Country: USA Publications
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Self-controlled feedback is effective if it is based on the learner's performanceSuzete Chiviacowsky
School of Physical Education, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Res Q Exerc Sport 76:42-8. 2005..This seems to support the view that self-controlled feedback benefits learning, because learners can make a decision about feedback based on their performance on a given trial...- Motor skill learning and performance: a review of influential factorsGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 3034, USA
Med Educ 44:75-84. 2010..Therefore, the consideration of these factors in designing procedures for medical training has the potential to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of training... - Attention and motor performance: preferences for and advantages of an external focusG Wulf
Department of Kinesiology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, 89154 3034, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 72:335-44. 2001..Retention tests were performed on Day 3. Most participants chose an external focus. Also, they were more effective in retention than participants who preferred an internal focus... - Reciprocal influences of attentional focus on postural and suprapostural task performanceGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154 3034, USA
J Mot Behav 36:189-99. 2004..The authors conclude that suprapostural task goals have a stronger influence on postural control than vice versa, reflecting the propensity of the motor system to optimize control processes on the basis of the desired movement effect... - Self-controlled observational practice enhances learningGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, 89154-3034, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 76:107-11. 2005 - Principles derived from the study of simple skills do not generalize to complex skill learningGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89154 3034, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 9:185-211. 2002..They also demonstrate the need to use more complex skills in motor-learning research in order to gain further insights into the learning process... - Enhancing the learning of sport skills through external-focus feedbackGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, 89154 3034, USA
J Mot Behav 34:171-82. 2002..The results demonstrate the effectiveness of effect-related, as opposed to movement-related, feedback and also suggest that there is a need to revise current views regarding the role of feedback for motor learning... - Directing attention to movement effects enhances learning: a reviewG Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89154 3034, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 8:648-60. 2001..We explain these results in terms of the ideomotor principle of human actions (James, 1890) and its more modern derivatives (Hommel, 1996; Prinz, 1990, 1997)... - Attentional focus effects in balance acrobatsGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vergas, NV 89154 3034, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 79:319-25. 2008..The findings are discussed in terms of action control levels and possible changes in the optimal attentional focus with the performer's level of expertise... - Attentional focus on suprapostural tasks affects balance learningGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154 3034, USA
Q J Exp Psychol A 56:1191-211. 2003..This suggests that the performer's attentional focus regarding the suprapostural task affects performance and learning not only of the suprapostural task itself, but also of the postural task... - Attentional focus effects as a function of task difficultyGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, 89154-3034, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 78:257-64. 2007 - Increased jump height and reduced EMG activity with an external focusGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154 3034, USA
Hum Mov Sci 29:440-8. 2010..These results suggest that neuromuscular coordination is enhanced by an external focus of attention. The present findings add to the evidence that an external focus facilitates the production of effective and efficient movement patterns... - Increased movement accuracy and reduced EMG activity as the result of adopting an external focus of attentionTiffany Zachry
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 89154-3034, USA
Brain Res Bull 67:304-9. 2005..This suggests that an external focus of attention enhances movement economy, and presumably reduces "noise" in the motor system that hampers fine movement control and makes the outcome of the movement less reliable... - EMG activity as a function of the performer's focus of attentionJason Vance
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-3034, USA
J Mot Behav 36:450-9. 2004..Those findings are in line with the constrained action hypothesis (G. Wulf, N. McNevin, & C. H. Shea, 2001), according to which an external focus promotes the use of more automatic control processes... - Increased jump height with an external focus due to enhanced lower extremity joint kineticsGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154 3034, USA
J Mot Behav 41:401-9. 2009..This finding adds to evidence that an external focus facilitates the production of effective and efficient movement patterns... - Conceptions of ability affect motor learningGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154 3034, USA
J Mot Behav 41:461-7. 2009..Thus, learning was enhanced by instructions portraying the task as a learnable skill, rather than revealing a fixed inherent capacity or no instructions (control group)... - External focus instructions reduce postural instability in individuals with Parkinson diseaseGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154 3034, USA
Phys Ther 89:162-8. 2009..Despite the potential benefits in stability-related risk reduction and enhanced movement effectiveness, attentional focus research in individuals challenged with postural instability is limited... - An external focus of attention enhances golf shot accuracy in beginners and expertsGabriele Wulf
Department of Kinesiology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, 89154-3034, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 78:384-9. 2007 - Enhancing motor learning through dyad practice: contributions of observation and dialogueCarolina Granados
Department of Kinesiology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV 89154 3034, USA
Res Q Exerc Sport 78:197-203. 2007..This suggests that the learning advantages of dyad practice are primarily due to the opportunity to observe another learner... - Attentional focus on supra-postural tasks affects postural controlNancy H McNevin
Department of Physical Therapy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Hum Mov Sci 21:187-202. 2002..The findings indicate improved static balance responses under external focus conditions and compromised static balance response under internal focus conditions... - Increasing the distance of an external focus of attention enhances learningNancy H McNevin
Department of Physical Therapy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Psychol Res 67:22-9. 2003.... - Feedback after good trials enhances learningSuzete Chiviacowsky
School of Physical Education at the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Res Q Exerc Sport 78:40-7. 2007..These results demonstrated that learning is facilitated if feedback is provided after good rather than poor trials. The findings are interpreted as evidence for a motivational function of feedback... - Self-controlled feedback in 10-year-old children: higher feedback frequencies enhance learningSuzete Chiviacowsky
Department of Physical Education, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Res Q Exerc Sport 79:122-7. 2008 - Self-controlled feedback: does it enhance learning because performers get feedback when they need it?Suzete Chiviacowsky
School of Physical Education, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Res Q Exerc Sport 73:408-15. 2002..Thus, self-control participants appeared to use a strategy for requesting feedback. This might explain learning advantages of self-controlled practice... - Internal versus external: oral-motor performance as a function of attentional focusSkott E Freedman
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182 1518, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 50:131-6. 2007..This study tested the hypothesis that the effects of attentional focus on limb performance would also occur in the oral-facial system... - Extrinsic feedback for motor learning after stroke: what is the evidence?Paulette M van Vliet
School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK
Disabil Rehabil 28:831-40. 2006..There is little guidance on using extrinsic feedback to enhance motor learning after stroke. This narrative review synthesises research findings and identifies questions remaining to be answered... - The influence of external and internal foci of attention on transfer to novel situations and skillsVasiliki Totsika
Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford
Res Q Exerc Sport 74:220-5. 2003 - Schema theory: a critical appraisal and reevaluationCharles H Shea
Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 4243, USA
J Mot Behav 37:85-101. 2005....