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Priming to promote fluent motor skill execution: Exploring attentional demands
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posted on 2018-10-26, 13:26 authored by Danielle Adams, Kelly J. Ashford, Robin JacksonRobin JacksonThe effect of priming on the speed and accuracy of skilled performance and on a probe-reaction time task designed to measure residual attentional capacity, was assessed. Twenty-four skilled soccer players completed a dribbling task under three prime conditions (fluency, skill-focus, and neutral) and a control condition. Results revealed changes in trial completion time and secondary task performance in line with successfully priming autonomous and skill-focused attention. Retention test data for task completion time and probe-reaction time indicated a linear decrease in the priming effect such that the effect was nonsignificant after 30 min. Results provide further support for the efficacy of priming and provide the first evidence of concurrent changes in attentional demands, consistent with promoting or disrupting automatic skill execution.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyVolume
36Issue
4Pages
366 - 374Citation
ADAMS, D., ASHFORD, K.J. and JACKSON, R.C., 2014. Priming to promote fluent motor skill execution: Exploring attentional demands. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 36 (4), pp.366-374.Publisher
© Human Kinetics, Inc.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2014Notes
Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2014, 36 (4): pp.366-374, https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2013-0085. © Human Kinetics, Inc.ISSN
0895-2779eISSN
1543-2904Publisher version
Language
- en