Performance Psychology: Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion

by Markus Raab PhD (Editor), Babett Lobinger PhD (Editor), Sven Hoffmann (Editor), Alexandra Pizzera PhD (Editor), Sylvain Laborde PhD (Editor)

Overview

This book integrates findings from across domains in performance psychology to focus on core research on what influences peak and non-peak performance. The book explores basic and applied research identifying cognition-action interactions, perception-cognition interactions, emotion-cognition interactions, and perception-action interactions. The book explores performance in sports, music, and the arts both for individuals and teams/groups, looking at the influence of cognition, perception, personality, motivation and drive, attention, stress, coaching, and age. This comprehensive work includes contributions from the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128033777
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/25/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Markus Raab is Head of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University and Head of the Performance Psychology Department. Additionally, he is Research Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. He obtained his MSc in Sport Science and PhDs in Movement Science and Cognitive Psychology. The main focus of the research programme in performance psychology is on judgement and decision making in sports, health and peak performance. He favours a simple heuristic approach and an embodied cognition approach to understanding the interaction of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviour from a psychological perspective. Dr. Raab brings more than two decades of experience to the project and co-edited the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.

Dr. Babett H. Lobinger is a senior lecturer at the institute of psychology at the German Sport University Cologne. She obtained her MSc in Psychology and Movement Science and her PhD in Sport Psychology. She is a trained psychologist with interest in paradoxical performance and talent development in high performance sports. Dr. Lobinger brings 15 years of experience to the project and co-edited the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.

Dr. Alexandra Pizzera is a sport scientist at the German Sport University Cologne. Her research interests span judgement and decision-making, visual and auditory perception, and embodied cognition of sports officials. Dr. Pizzera brings 15 years of experience to the project and co-edited to the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.

Dr. Sylvain Laborde is a senior lecturer at the German Sport University Cologne. He obtained his MSc in Psychology and Sport Science and PhDs in Psychology and Sport Science. His research focuses on heart rate variability (HRV) as a self-regulation indicator and emotional intelligence as an adaptive personality individual difference. Dr. Pizzera brings 17 years of experience to the project and co-edited to the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.

Table of Contents

Preface

Section A
What is Performance Psychology?

1. The Building Blocks of Performance: An Overview
Markus Raab

2. Theoretical Framework of Performance Psychology: An Action Theory Perspective
Jürgen R. Nitsch and Dieter Hackfort

3. Measurement Considerations in Performance Psychology
Gershon Tenenbaum and Edson Filho

4. Applications within Performance Psychology
Terry Clark and Aaron Williamon

Section B
Performance Phenomena of Cognitive-Action Interaction

5. Bridging the Gap between Action and Cognition: An Overview
Babett Helen Lobinger

6. Improving Performance by Means of Action–Cognition Coupling in Athletes and Coaches
Gloria B. Solomon

7. Music Performance: Expectations, Failures, and Prevention
Eckart Altenmüller and Christos I. Ioannou

8. Motor Imagery and Mental Training in Older Adults
Michael Kalicinski, Monika Thomas and Babett Lobinger

Section C
Dysfunctional Learning, Errors, and Other Performance Phenomena of Perception-Cognition Interactions

9. Bridging the Gap between Perception and Cognition: An Overview
Sven Hoffmann

10. Performance and Error Monitoring: Causes and Consequences
Sven Hoffmann

11. Committing Errors as a Consequence of an Adverse Focus of Attention
Daniel Schneider

12. Lifestyle and Interventions for Improving Cognitive Performance in Older Adults
Patrick D. Gajewski and Michael Falkenstein

Section D
Self-Other Perceptions and Other Performance Phenomena of Perception-Action Interactions

13. Bridging the Gap between Perception and Action: An Overview
Alexandra Pizzera

14. Capturing Motion for Enhancing Performance: An Embodied Cognition Perspective on Sports and the Performing Arts
Vassilis Sevdalis and Clemens Wöllner

15. Auditory Action Perception
Christian Kennel and Alexandra Pizzera

16. Visual Perception in Expert Action
Rita de Oliveira

Section E
Performance under Pressure of Individuals or Teams and Other Performance Phenomena of Emotion-Cognition Interactions

17. Bridging the Gap between Emotion and Cognition: An Overview
Sylvain Laborde

18. Performing under Pressure: Influence of Personality- Trait-Like Individual Differences
Emma Mosley and Sylvain Laborde

19. The Influence of Hormonal Stress on Performance
Franziska Lautenbach and Sylvain Laborde

20. Performing under Pressure: High-Level Cognition in High-Pressure Environments
K. Werner

Index

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An integrative overview of what influences peak and nonpeak performance in sports, music, the arts, and other applied settings