The Racer's Mind—How Core Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise Is Reflected in Deliberate Practice Procedures in Professional Motorsport

This article examines the nature and evolution of mental time travel. Evidence for capacities in other animals is reviewed and evaluated in terms of which components of the human faculty appear to be shared and which are unique. While some nonhuman animals store episodic memory traces and can display a range of future-directed capacities, they do not appear to share the open-ended ability to construct mental scenarios, to embed them into larger narratives, nor to reflect and communicate on what they entail. Nested scenario building and the urge to exchange mental experiences seem to set human minds apart in this context as in many others. The article ends with a discussion of the archeological evidence for mental time travel, focusing on deliberate practice as an example of its tremendous fitness consequences.

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Deliberate practice as an educational method for learning to interpret the prepubescent female genital examination

Child Abuse & Neglect ◽

10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104379 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 101 ◽

pp. 104379 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

A.L. Davis ◽

M. Pecaric ◽

M.V. Pusic ◽

T. Smith ◽

M. Shouldice ◽

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Keyword(s):

Deliberate Practice ◽

Educational Method ◽

Female Genital

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Low Engagement As a Deliberate Practice of Remote Participants in Video Meetings

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ◽

10.1145/3334480.3383080 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Anastasia Kuzminykh ◽

Sean Rintel

Keyword(s):

Deliberate Practice

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Acquiring the Art of Conducting: Deliberate Practice as Part of Professional Learning

Journal of Advanced Academics ◽

10.1177/1932202x21995931 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1932202X2199593

Author(s):

Simon Schmidt ◽

Manuel Längler ◽

Amelie Altenbuchner ◽

Louisa Kobl ◽

Hans Gruber

Keyword(s):

Professional Learning ◽

Deliberate Practice ◽

General Music ◽

Excellent Performance ◽

Music Practice ◽

Orchestral Conducting ◽

Study Programs ◽

Specific Practice ◽

Conducting Students ◽

Extensive Practice

Research was and still is involved in the controversial issue about innate talent or extensive practice as the determinants of excellent performance in a range of domains. This study aims to contribute by presenting an analysis of practice activities in a domain that appears to be particularly suitable—orchestral conducting. Most conductors usually attain expertise in instrument playing prior to commencing conducting studies. Twenty-seven students of German study programs of orchestral conducting (approximately 18.7% of the population) responded to a questionnaire about their practice activities in conducting programs and their instrumental experiences. Descriptive results show the wealth of prestudy experiences conducting students have. A clear influence on practice activities cannot be stated. During study, students rated conducting-specific practice activities as more demanding and devoted more time to them than to general music practice activities. Therefore, conducting-specific practice activities might have been practiced more deliberately than general music practice activities.

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Contextual information and perceptual-cognitive expertise in a dynamic, temporally-constrained task.

Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied ◽

10.1037/xap0000094 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 455-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Colm P. Murphy ◽

Robin C. Jackson ◽

Karl Cooke ◽

André Roca ◽

Nicolas Benguigui ◽

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Keyword(s):

Contextual Information ◽

Cognitive Expertise

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A PRISMA Review of Research on Music Practice

Musicae Scientiae ◽

10.1177/10298649211005531 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 102986492110055

Author(s):

Ee Ran How ◽

Leonard Tan ◽

Peter Miksza

Keyword(s):

Self Regulation ◽

Deliberate Practice ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Final Analysis ◽

The United States ◽

Research Literature ◽

Mental Practice ◽

Future Research ◽

Complex Activity ◽

Music Practice

We employed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) method to systematically review research on music practice from 1928 until June 2020 and identified a total of 3,102 records using our inclusion criteria, of which a total of 296 were eventually selected for the final analysis. We tabulated percentages and frequencies of (a) publications in ten-year periods, (b) type of publications, (c) sampling by geographical location, (d) methodologies used, (e) the top tenth percentile of the most highly cited research, and (f) topics covered. Our analyses reveal that particularly strong growth occurred in the literature between 2000 and 2020. In the literature we retrieved, the most commonly sampled research participants were those in the United States, followed by the United Kingdom and Australia. Quantitative research designs were most prevalent, accounting for two-thirds of all studies reviewed (66.2%), with questionnaires and recordings being the most common methods of data collection. Non-empirical papers (17.5%) as well as studies incorporating qualitative (13.5%) and mixed-methods designs (3.1%) were much less prevalent. Ericsson et al.’s (1993) seminal study of deliberate practice, Driskell et al.’s (1994) review of the research literature on mental practice, and Sloboda et al.’s (1996) study of young musicians were by far the most often cited. Overall, the most common topics addressed were deliberate practice, practice strategies, mental practice, the benefits of practice, metacognition, self-regulation, and self-efficacy, suggesting that music practice is a rich, multifaceted, and complex activity. In light of the findings, recommendations for practice and implications for future research are provided.

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