Abstract
In the “expertise” approach, recognized experts in a particular skill domain are compared to non-experts in tests thought to reflect components required to perform well in the domain. If experts are better than nonexperts at the experimental tasks, the tasks must reflect some knowledge or ability required for expert performance. It is apparent that any experimenter wishing to use this approach is faced with two problems: determining a criterion for what constitutes an expert, and selecting tasks that evaluate the components of the skill. Various approaches to the study of expertise in skilled motor performance are discussed. Ecological psychology has made a major impact in the area of motor learning/control. According to this perspective, perception and action are woven together such that perception guides action and action provides richer perceptual data. The perception-action link is so direct that no cognitive activity intervenes between them. According to the information processing approach to skilled motor performance, any skilled action is the product of a chain of events, beginning with the analysis of sensory data, followed by a decision about what movement to perform, and ending with the execution of the selected motor pattern.
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