Timestamp

1:54 — Personal & Professional Background

5:25 — Near vs. Far Transfer

10:09 - Linking Near Transfers Together

11:52 — Inspiration To Study Validity of Cognitive Training

14:58 — Key Findings of Cognitive Training Far Transfer Research

20:46 — Neurofeedback in Golf

22:03 — Recommendations When Adopting New Technology

29:06 — What is Augmented Feedback + What We (Don’t) Know About Effective Feedback?

34:36 — Over Reliance on External Feedback

38:19 — Recommendations For Golfers/Coaches on Feedback

40:13 — Practice for Confidence vs. Competence

45:05 — Insights Into Dr. Fransen’s Meta-Scientific Work

47:15 — Technique vs. Skill

50:56 — Contextual Interference

52:59 — Key Findings on Long-Term Athlete Development

1:00:18 — What’s Something You’ve Changed Your Mind About Over Your Career?

1:02:44 — Book Recommendations

1:06:22 — Current Projects

Resources

Book Recommendation #1: The Tyranny of Metrics

Book Recommendation #2: The forest through the trees

Paper #1: There is no evidence for a far transfer of cognitive training to sport performance

Paper #2: The effect of augmented feedback on the performance and learning of gross motor and sport-specific skills: A systematic review

Paper #3: Differences in physical fitness and gross motor coordination in boys aged 6–12 years specializing in one versus sampling more than one sport.

About Dr. Job Fransen

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Job Fransen is a senior lecturer at CSU’s Port Macquarie campus who possesses a profound fascination with the intricacies of human learning, particularly the interplay between individual attributes and environmental factors in shaping movement. Job's extensive teaching portfolio spans diverse subjects such as skill acquisition, motor control, motor learning, and the cultivation of talent and expertise. He has extensive experience crafting tailor-made educational content for both industry and academic institutions. Job's dedication to pedagogy is underscored by a collection of teaching and learning accolades earned throughout his career, notably for fostering student self-discovery through non-linear pedagogy.

Job studies how experts and novices execute motor skills and make decisions within sports-related contexts. His contributions to the scientific literature include publications addressing talent identification and development programs in youth sports, the role of perceptual and cognitive abilities in sporting expertise development, and the evaluation and enhancement of collective behaviour. Job's most recent work adopts a meta-scientific perspective on skill acquisition literature, shedding new light on this complex domain.

Outside of academia, Job leads an international skill acquisition research group and a teaching and learning workgroup, fostering the exchange of innovative ideas in research and pedagogy. Notably, Job serves as an associate editor for Science and Medicine in Football and held an executive board position in the Australasian Skill Acquisition Network from 2018 to 2022.

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