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Cognition and action : an ecological perspective in sport
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The ecological approach that has come to be used in recent years to frame the learning and
performance of sports skills, contrasts with the explanatory models of motor control that
traditionally attach great importance to the mental representations of movement. In this sense, this
work frames the ecological vision of cognition in sport in a comprehensive perspective, describing
the athlete as a whole and not just what is happening inside his "head". We conclude that the
emergent action in sports context results primarily from the interaction that the athlete establishes
with the environment, therefore it is not necessary to use cognitive processes designed to succeed
in the task. In this context, we propose to coaches that they should explore the functional aspects
that underlie the manipulation of individual, environmental and task constraints, thus allowing
their athletes to autonomously discover motor solutions and find relevant information-action
couplings by themselves.
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cognition action ecological dynamics environment athlete