Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10303
Title: | Priming to promote fluent motor skill execution: Exploring attentional demands |
Authors: | Adams, D Ashford, KJ Jackson, RC |
Keywords: | Automatic control;Conscious processing;P-RT;Priming |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. |
Citation: | Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 36(4): 366 - 374, ( August 2014) |
Abstract: | The 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. |
URI: | http://journals.humankinetics.com/jsep-back-issues/jsep-volume-36-issue-4-august/priming-to-promote-fluent-motor-skill-execution-exploring-attentional-demands http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10303 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2013-0085 |
ISSN: | 0895-2779 1543-2904 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fulltext.pdf | 317.46 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Items in BURA are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.