Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part a

Volume 232

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sport and the Brain: The Science of Preparing, Enduring and Winning, Part A, Volume 231 reflects recent advancements in the understanding of how elite athletes prepare for-and perform at-peak levels during competition. The latest release in this series focuses on a variety of topics, including chapters on Great British medalists: Psychosocial biographies of Super-Elite and Elite athletes from Olympic sports, a chapter on elite and super-elite Great British athletes: Some theoretical implications from Hardy et al.'s (2016) findings, and The psychosocial development of world class athletes: Additional considerations for understanding the whole person and salience of adversity. This series takes a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on aspects of psychology, neuroscience, skill learning, talent development and physiology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 242mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780128118276
• ISBN-10: 012811827X
• Artikelnr.: 47217685

Inhaltsangabe

1. Great British medalists: Psychosocial biographies of Super-Elite and
Elite athletes from Olympic sports
2.  On elite and super-elite Great British athletes: Some theoretical
implications from Hardy et al.'s (2016) findings
3. The psychosocial development of world class athletes: Additional
considerations for understanding the whole person and salience of adversity
4. The journey of a thousand miles...  Notes on Hardy et al's Great British
Medalists Project
5. Embedding the psychosocial biographies of Olympic medalists in a (meta-)
theoretical model of dynamic networks
6. Assessing Risk Factors for Athletic Excellence
7. In Search of the Golden Skill
8. Much Ado About....? A response to Hardy et al.
9. The Stress Test: Does what doesn't kill me, make me a Super-Elite
Athlete?
10. Adversity-Related Experiences are Essential for Olympic Success:
Additional Evidence and Considerations
11. Getting gritty about practice and success: Motivational characteristics
of great performers
12. Great British Medalists: A commentary based on a developmental systems
theory perspective
13. Eventual sport performance level: what about the role of type of sport,
perception of critical life events, and practice quality?
14. Is A Peaceful Mind A Winning Mind? Comment on Hardy et al (2016)
15.  Super Elite Athletes: Some Complimentary Observations from Australia
and Some Lessons for Sports Expertise Research - Comment on Hardy et al.
16. A culture of striving augments use of working memory? Implications for
attention control 
17. The Tales Athletes Tell: Narrative Structure and Identity in Great
British Medalists 
18. Great British medalists: Response to the commentaries