Motor Competence and Difficulty of Self-Set Goals on Motor Learning.

Motor competence is associated with the perceived difficulty of a task. This study hypothesized that children with higher motor competence perceive certain tasks as less challenging than their peers with lower motor competence. As a result, children with higher motor competence were expected to set more ambitious goals for themselves while learning a new task compared to children with lower motor competence.

Combination of narrow and wide bandwidth knowledge of performance in the acquisition of a complex sports motor skill.

Objectives: This study tested the effects of combining two bandwidth knowledge of performance (KP) on a complex sports motor skill.

Method: Twenty-two elementary students were divided into combined wide and narrow bandwidth KP (WNG) and control group (CG). The task was the volleyball serve, whose goal was to hit the bull's eye center of a target lying on the floor on the opposite side of the court.

Executive Functions and Motor Adaptation to Predictable and Unpredictable Perturbations.

In this study, we aimed to investigate the influence of executive functions (EF) on motor adaptation. We compared the motor performance of adults with and without EF deficits. Those with EF deficits ( = 21) were individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) under medical treatment, and those without EF deficits ( = 21) comprised a control group (CG) of participants who were also without neurological or psychiatric diagnoses.

Motor competence in fundamental motor skills and sport skill learning: Testing the proficiency barrier hypothesis.

We investigated whether motor competence in fundamental motor skills influences sports motor skill learning. Motor competence in fundamental motor skills related to the overhead volleyball serve (i.e.