Dynamics of Skill Acquisition

Chris Button is a senior lecturer and director of the Human Performance Centre at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is an accredited biomechanist through the Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand and is also a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Button works with coaches and athletes of the New Zealand of Sport and provides them with sport science support for sports such as netball, football, swimming and motor sports. He also publishes his research in variety of journals in sport science, psychology and international movement science. Ludovic Seifert is Vice Dean of the CETAPs lab and the Head of the Sport Performance Analysis Master's degree at the University of Rouen in France. Previously, he worked as a physical education teacher for five years. His field of research relates to motor control and learning, expertise and talent development. Specifically his interests include movement coordination and visual-motor skills with particular interest in swimming and climbing. Such topics have led him to work closely with several French Sport Federations and professional clubs. Jia Yi Chow is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He currently serves as an Associate Dean at the Office of Teacher Education. Jia Yi's key research work includes Nonlinear Pedagogy, investigation of multi-articular coordination changes, analysis of team dynamics and the examination of visual-perceptual skills in sport expertise. Duarte Araújo is an Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon, in Portugal. He is also the Associate Editor of the journals Psychology of Sport and Exercise and the Journal of Expertise. Araújo published more than 130 papers in highly scientific journals and more than 15 books, mainly about expertise, team performance, variability, cognition and decision making in sport. Keith Davids is a professor of motor control at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Over the past 25 years, Davids has focused his research and teaching in the area of motor learning and control. He has published five books and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Davids has also held teaching positions in Europe, New Zealand and Australia.