Skill acquisition in sport : research, theory and practice / Edited by Nicola J. Hodges and Mark Williams

"First edition published by Routledge 2004; second edition published by Routledge 2012"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: The Science Behind Sport Skill Acquisition: What's New, What Stood the Test of Time and What Are the Future Challenges? -- Section 1: Providing Instruction and Feedback -- 1. Enhancing Motor Skill Acquisition with Augmented Feedback -- 2. Changing Automatized Movement Patterns -- 3. Errors, rewards, and reinforcement in motor skill learning -- 4. Motor Imagery Practice and Skilled Performance in Sport: From Efficacy to Mechanisms -- 5. Further advances in implicit motor learning -- Section 2: Organizing Effective Practice -- 6. Contextual Interference: New Findings, Insights, and Implications for Skill Acquisition -- 7. Self-controlled Learning: Current Findings, Theoretical Perspectives, and Future Directions -- 8. Learning together: Observation and other mechanisms which mediate shared practice contexts -- 9. Constraints-Led Learning in Practice: Designing effective learning environments -- 10. Operationalizing deliberate practice for performance improvement in sport Section 3: High-level Skill Training -- 11. Sports training technologies: Achieving and assessing transfer -- 12. Models of game intelligence and creativity in sport: Implications for skill acquisition -- 13. Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise and Simulation-Based Training in Sport -- 14. Mental toughness training -- 15. Staying cool under pressure: Developing and maintaining emotional expertise in sport -- Section 4: Mechanisms and Models of Skill Acquisition -- 16. Motor Skill learning and its Neurophysiology -- 17. Appropriate Failure to Create Effective Learning: Optimizing Challenge -- 18. Ecological Dynamics and Transfer from practice to performance in sport -- 19. The Development of skill and Interest in Sport.

Skill Acquisition in Sport gives academics, students, coaches and practitioners the broadest and most scientifically rigorous grounding in the principles and practice of the field. Fully revised, updated and restructured, the third edition integrates theory and practice, and provides more material on practical application than ever before.