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Cognitive Training Doesn’t Effect Far Transfer
If you take into account potential placebo effects and the fact that some of these studies have a very poor methodological quality, there is a null effect of cognitive training on far transfer tasks.
What is Transfer?
All of our practices built on this concept of transfer, that some aspect of what you learn transfers to a place in which you can apply it.
How To Provide Feedback
Even though we have textbooks and 50-60 papers claiming it, we cannot say that there's a specific way of providing feedback that leads to optimization of performance.
Technique vs. Skill
Technique is a particular way of coordinating your limbs, but skill is the application of that coordination pattern, to a context that requires it.
Timestamp
1:54 — Personal & Professional Background
5:25 — Near vs. Far Transfer
10:09 - Linking Near Transfers Together
11:52 — Inspiration To Study Validity of Cognitive Training
14:58 — Key Findings of Cognitive Training Far Transfer Research
20:46 — Neurofeedback in Golf
22:03 — Recommendations When Adopting New Technology
29:06 — What is Augmented Feedback + What We (Don’t) Know About Effective Feedback?
34:36 — Over Reliance on External Feedback
38:19 — Recommendations For Golfers/Coaches on Feedback
40:13 — Practice for Confidence vs. Competence
45:05 — Insights Into Dr. Fransen’s Meta-Scientific Work
47:15 — Technique vs. Skill
50:56 — Contextual Interference
52:59 — Key Findings on Long-Term Athlete Development
1:00:18 — What’s Something You’ve Changed Your Mind About Over Your Career?
1:02:44 — Book Recommendations
1:06:22 — Current Projects
Resources
Book Recommendation #1: The Tyranny of Metrics
Book Recommendation #2: The forest through the trees
Paper #1: There is no evidence for a far transfer of cognitive training to sport performance
About Dr. Job Fransen
Contact Info: job.fransen@gmail.com
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Job Fransen is a senior lecturer at CSU’s Port Macquarie campus who possesses a profound fascination with the intricacies of human learning, particularly the interplay between individual attributes and environmental factors in shaping movement. Job's extensive teaching portfolio spans diverse subjects such as skill acquisition, motor control, motor learning, and the cultivation of talent and expertise. He has extensive experience crafting tailor-made educational content for both industry and academic institutions. Job's dedication to pedagogy is underscored by a collection of teaching and learning accolades earned throughout his career, notably for fostering student self-discovery through non-linear pedagogy.
Job studies how experts and novices execute motor skills and make decisions within sports-related contexts. His contributions to the scientific literature include publications addressing talent identification and development programs in youth sports, the role of perceptual and cognitive abilities in sporting expertise development, and the evaluation and enhancement of collective behaviour. Job's most recent work adopts a meta-scientific perspective on skill acquisition literature, shedding new light on this complex domain.
Outside of academia, Job leads an international skill acquisition research group and a teaching and learning workgroup, fostering the exchange of innovative ideas in research and pedagogy. Notably, Job serves as an associate editor for Science and Medicine in Football and held an executive board position in the Australasian Skill Acquisition Network from 2018 to 2022.
Skill Acquisition w/ Dr. Job Fransen