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Field name	Details
Nuova numerazione	78935
Collocazione	UPS BIBL CENTR SL-II-587
Autore	BISAGNO, E.
Titolo	How do we learn to “kill” in volleyball? : the role of working memory capacity and expertise in volleyball motor learning. Parte componente di periodico
Descrizione fisica	pp. 128-145.
Nota generale	Estratto da: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2018, 167.
Riassunto	This study examines young volleyball players’ learning of increasingly complex attack gestures. The main purpose of the study was to examine the predictive role of a cognitive variable, working memory capacity (or “M capacity”), in the acquisition and development of motor skills in a structured sport. Pascual-Leone’s theory of constructive operators (TCO) was used as a framework; it defines working memory capacity as the maximum number of schemes that can be simultaneously activated by attentional resources. The role of expertise in motor learning was also considered. The expertise of each athlete was assessed in terms of years of practice and number of training sessions per week. The participants were 120 volleyball players, aged between 6 and 26 years, who performed both working memory tests and practical tests of volleyball involving the execution of the “third touch” by means of technical gestures of varying difficulty. We proposed a task analysis of these different gestures framed within the TCO. The results pointed to a very clear dissociation. On the one hand, M capacity was the best predictor of correct motor performance, and a specific capacity threshold was found for learning each attack gesture. On the other hand, experience was the key for the precision of the athletic gestures. This evidence could underline the existence of two different cognitive mechanisms in motor learning. The first one, relying on attentional resources, is required to learn a gesture. The second one, based on repeated experience, leads to its automatization.
Tipo di documento	RICERCA.
Soggetto	APPRENDIMENTO.
	ABILITÀ.
	SPORT.
	MEMORIA.
	INFANZIA.
	ADOLESCENTI.
	ITALIA.
Ambito	Psicologico
Autore Secondario	MORRA, S.
Titolo correlato	Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2018, 167.
Accesso online	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=127032037&lang=it&site=ehost-live

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How do we learn to “kill” in volleyball? : the role of working memory capacity and expertise in volleyball motor learning.