Repetition Without Repetition: Challenges in Understanding Behavioral Flexibility in Motor Skill
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: A hallmark of skilled motor performance is behavioral flexibility - i.e., experts can not only produce a movement pattern to reliably and efficiently achieve a given task outcome, but also possess the ability to change that movement pattern to fit a new context. In this perspective article, we briefly highlight the factors that are critical to understanding behavioral flexibility, and its connection to movement variability, stability, and learning. We then address how practice strategies should be developed from a motor learning standpoint to enhance behavioral flexibility. Finally, we highlight some important future avenues of work that are needed to advance our understanding of behavioral flexibility. We use examples from sport as a context to highlight these issues, especially in regard to elite performance and development.
Source: Frontiers in Psychology
Authors: Rajiv Ranganathan, Mei-Hua Lee, Karl M. Newell
Institutions: Michigan State University, University of Georgia
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,950
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W3049418262