Time to Start Training: A Review of Cognitive Research in Sport and Bridging the Gap from Academia to the Field

Belling, Patrick K.; Ward, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.202

Cited by 15 publications

(20 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The hitting coach contacted the researcher and asked for help designing an extensive pitch recognition training program. The coach and the researcher undertook the project understanding that it would be developed iteratively since pitch recognition training studies (Burroughs, 1984 ; Fadde, 2006 ; Belling and Ward, 2015 ) used for guidance were limited in duration and integration.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While there have been several pitch recognition training interventions with college baseball teams they either focused on a short time frame (Burroughs, 1984 ; Fadde, 2006 ) or made a training technology available to a team for a full season but did not specify instructional activities (Belling and Ward, 2015 ). This was the first pitch recognition training program that featured a curriculum throughout the in-season and off-season phases of a sports year.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In large part because baseball batting performance in competitive leagues is represented by an array of statistics, researchers have been able to measure effects of pitch recognition training on performance. For example, the Axon Sports pitch recognition training application was made available to an NCAA Division-I college baseball team for self-directed use by players during the 2013 baseball season (Belling and Ward, 2015 ). Effects of the training program were measured by comparing the cooperating team's batting statistics in the season previous to using the Axon Sports system with statistics from the 2013 season.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using the Mann–Whitney U -test, batters in the treatment group ranked higher on all three batting statistics and significantly higher on Batting Average (Fadde, 2006 ). Despite the demonstrated effects of pitch recognition training on batting performance, however, these methods have yet to be widely adopted by teams as a routine part of preparing high-performance batters (Belling and Ward, 2015 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Instructional Design for Accelerated Macrocognitive Expertise in the Baseball Workplace

Fadde

2016

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The goal of accelerating expertise can leave researchers and trainers in human factors, naturalistic decision making, sport science, and expertise studies concerned about seemingly insufficient application of expert performance theories, findings and methods for training macrocognitive aspects of human performance. Video-occlusion methods perfected by sports expertise researchers have great instructional utility, in some cases offering an effective and inexpensive alternative to high-fidelity simulation. A key problem for instructional designers seems to be that expertise research done in laboratory and field settings doesn't get adequately translated into workplace training. Therefore, this article presents a framework for better linkage of expertise research/training across laboratory, field, and workplace settings. It also uses a case study to trace the development and implementation of a macrocognitive training program in the very challenging workplace of the baseball batters' box. This training, which was embedded for a full season in a college baseball team, targeted the perceptual-cognitive skill of pitch recognition that allows expert batters to circumvent limitations of human reaction time in order to hit a 90 mile-per-hour slider. While baseball batting has few analogous skills outside of sports, the instructional design principles of the training program developed to improve batting have wider applicability and implications. Its core operational principle, supported by information processing models but challenged by ecological models, decouples the perception-action link for targeted part-task training of the perception component, in much the same way that motor components routinely are isolated to leverage instructional efficiencies. After targeted perceptual training, perception and action were recoupled via transfer-appropriate tasks inspired by in situ research tasks. Using NCAA published statistics as performance measures, the cooperating team improved from middling performance to first in their conference in Runs Scored and team Batting Average. This case suggests that, beyond the usual considerations of effectiveness and efficiency, there are four challenges to embedded training in the workplace setting —namely: duration, curriculum, limited resources, and buy in. In the case reported here, and potentially in many domains beyond sports, part-task perceptual-cognitive training can improve targeted macrocognitive skills and thereby improve full-skill performance.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Instructional Design for Accelerated Macrocognitive Expertise in the Baseball Workplace

Fadde

2016

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Such affirmation is correct for people with certain individual features. P. K. Belling and P. Ward [6] showed the importance of baseball players' cognitive training with the help of specially worked out video scenarios. Application of such technologies resulted in increase of competition activity's effectiveness.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Algorithm of athletes’ fitness structure individual features’ determination with the help of multidimensional analysis (on example of basketball)

Kozina

Cieslicka

Prusik

et al. 2017

PES

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose:to determine main laws of determination of athletes' fitness structure's individual characteristics with the help of multidimensional analysis (on example of basketball). Material:in the research elite basketball players (n=54) participated. Pedagogic testing included 12 tests, applied in combined teams of Ukraine and Russia. For every test three attempts were given and the best result was registered. The tests were passed during 2-3 training sessions. Results:we worked out general scheme of ways of athletes' training individualization. For every athlete we determined the groups of leading and secondary factors in individual structure of fitness. The process of athletes' training shall contain basic and variable components. Basic component was 70% of means in general system of athletes' training. Variable component was 30% of means and implies application of individual training means. Percentage of means in individual programs varies depending on the following: leading factors in fitness individual structure; period of individual dynamic of competition efficiency. In every micro-cycle 30% is assigned for athletes' individual training: athletes received individual tasks; groups on the base of cluster analysis data were formed, if necessary. Conclusions:when working out individual training programs, development of leading factors in individual factorial structure of athletes' fitness shall be accented. Application of individual programs, combined with universal individualization methods creates preconditions for rising competition activities' efficiency.

show abstract

Training vision in athletes to improve sports performance: a systematic review of the literature

Lochhead,

Feng,

Laby

et al. 2024

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Time to Start Training: A Review of Cognitive Research in Sport and Bridging the Gap from Academia to the Field

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Instructional Design for Accelerated Macrocognitive Expertise in the Baseball Workplace

Instructional Design for Accelerated Macrocognitive Expertise in the Baseball Workplace

Algorithm of athletes’ fitness structure individual features’ determination with the help of multidimensional analysis (on example of basketball)

Training vision in athletes to improve sports performance: a systematic review of the literature

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About