Impredicativity merchant. Researching cross-scale interactions and context-sensitivity in flow states. Post-cognitive takes on sport, skill, and psychology.
Hi everyone, just popping back in to share the latest work from my from my PhD. I would like to thank my fantastic co-authors and the anonymous peer-reviewers.
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Quick 🧵on why ecological dynamics has enabled such breakthroughs in the understanding of skill.
The key reconceptualization occurs at a level of depth that is often overlooked by armchair analysts.
I've recently been having a conversation with @NickGearing1 around the idea of isolated training.
So I thought I'd do a thread on repetition, isolation, and effective training. 🧵⬇️
There's several years worth of discussions behind a lot of these ideas and debates, but going to try to summarise my position here. Fwiw, I think the sport is at the point where ontological questions can no longer be ignored so I'm a big fan of vigorous discussion around this.
Why ecological psychology?? a 🧵
In the words Fodor (of one of its biggest critics and a giant of cognitivism)
"If the program as he [Gibson] presents it were to succeed, it would constitute a conceptual revolution on the grand scale. Many of the deepest problems in cognitive
Representative design: a 🧵
Representative design (RD) is a simple idea. Practice is supposed to represent the game in *some* way.
The first question that people typically ask is "how does task A relate to task B?" This is an old and polarizing question.
Direct perception is one of the most controversial aspects of ecological approaches to psychology.
It is also one of the most misunderstood concepts.
A quick thread on why we need direct perception and what people get wrong about it. 🧵
Engaged in a brief discussion about empirical support for ecological approaches in sport so here are a few links for people to check out.
Only QT'ing for the sake of thread/clarity.
Would love for people to engage more with this empirical research!
While EcoD offers valuable insights into behaviour and performance, its hasty adoption across domains and premature use as a causal framework in sports lacks thorough research as suggested by Araújo et al., emphasising the need for empirical support for EcoD hypotheses
Link 👇🏼
Hi all, I'm very excited to present the first full-length publication from my PhD. In this paper, we explore the impact of different metatheoretical framings on explanations of flow.
Flow is an attempt to understand some of the best experiences
Deception may be the wrong word for what goes on in sports. Why? Glad you asked 🧵
Deception implies making someone else think something that you know to be untrue
Messi doesn't approach Boateng think "let me make him think I'm going inside"