Internal and External Focus of Attention in a Novice Form Sport

Autor/inn/en	Lawrence, Gavin P.; Gottwald, Vicky M.; Hardy, James; Khan, Michael A.
Titel	Internal and External Focus of Attention in a Novice Form Sport
Quelle	In: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 82 (2011) 3, S.431-441 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-1367
Schlagwörter	Evaluation; Athletics; Experiments; Comparative Analysis; Skill Development; Attention; Psychomotor Skills; Human Posture; Adults; Statistical Analysis; Measures (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evaluierung; Leichtathletik; Erprobung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Aufmerksamkeit; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Posture; Körperhaltung; Statistische Analyse; Messdaten
Abstract	In the current experiment, we examined optimal focus for novices during a movement sequence in which performance was measured on accurate movement form/technique. A novel gymnastics routine was practiced under either an internal skill-relevant, internal skill-irrelevant, external, or no attention focus. Retention and transfer tests were then completed. During acquisition, adopting an internal irrelevant focus significantly improved performance, whereas an external focus degraded performance. There were no significant group differences in the retention and transfer tests. This suggests that learning of movement form/technique did not benefit from a specific focus of attention. The results are interpreted via an attentional capacity viewpoint and the notion that form tasks do not always contain obvious movement effects central to common coding and the constrained action hypothesis. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10