Experts' complex movements are flexibly controlled via mental basic action concepts stored in long-term memory, as shown with tennis serves¶

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Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Using a picture-sorting task, Schack showed that basic action concepts for tennis-serve sub-movements are present in players' long-term memory and, in skilled players, integrated into a coherent memory network. → Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner 2022

Evidence¶

Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner 2022¶

Dor Abrahamson · Franz Mechsner. (2022). Toward Synergizing Educational Research and Movement Sciences: a Dialogue on Learning as Developing Perception for Action. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-022-09668-3

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Picture-sorting study with tennis experts by Schack and Mechsner (2006), as reported in this article, identifying eleven basic action concepts across the serve's pre-activation, strike, and final swing phases. No effect size or sample size is printed in the present article.

"Using a sophisticated picture-sorting task, Schack was able to show that these BACs are actually present in the long-term memory of tennis players. In skilled players, these are integrated into a coherent memory network (Schack & Mechsner, 2006)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Long-Term Memory — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

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