Index and abstracts

n. 1 - January-March 2009

• Ecological approaches to cognition and action in sport and exercise: Ask not only what you do, but where you do it (Duarte Araújo, Keith Davids)
• Sport Psychology as an instance of Ecological Psychology (Kenneth R. Hammond, Robert A.bateman)
• Sport in the perspective of Barkerian Psychological ecology (Gerhard Kaminski)
• Information, affordances, and the control of action in sport (Brett R. Fajen, Michael A. Riley, Michael T. Turvey)
• Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory ofHuman Development and the process of development of sports talent (Ruy Jornada Krebs)
• Some brickbats and bouquets for ecological approaches to cognition in Sport (Bruce Abernethy)
• Ecological approaches to sport psychology: prospects and challenges (Peter J. Beek)
• Ecological approaches to Sport Activity: A commentary from an action-theoretical point of view (Jürgen R. Nitsch)
• Exercise Psychology: Building ecological underpinnings for public-health action (Neville Owen)
• Reply to Comments: The need for representativeness persists (Kenneth R. Hammond, Robert A. Bateman)
• (No) Final Comment: What I have learnt (Gerhard Kaminski)
• Reply to commentaries on “information, affordances, and the control of action in sport” (Michael A. Riley, Brett R. Fajen, Michael T. Turvey)
• Proximal processes as the primary engines of development (Ruy Jornada Krebs)

n. 2 - April-June 2009

• Consistency of coping strategies and defense mechanisms during training sessions and sport competitions (Michel Nicolas, Ahmed Jebrane)
• An analysis of the impact of environmental conditions on the relationships between need satisfaction and intrinsic motivation in sport (Nicolas Gillet, Sophie Berjot, Elisabeth Rosnet)
• The effects of Effort, Performance, and Expertise on apparent size perception in Golf (Daniel Memmert, Marissa Blanco, Veronique Merkle)
• Effects of age, competitive level and perceived moral atmosphere on moral functioning of soccer players (Philippe Romand, Nathalie Pantaléon, Fabienne D’Arripe-Longueville)
• Effects of player position task complexity in visual exploration behavior in soccer (Christophe Bertrand, Francine Thullier)
• Factor Validity and Reliability of the Sport Friendship Quality Scale in a French adolescent sample (Stéphanie Scoffier, Christophe Maiano, Fabienne D’Arripe-Longueville)
• The influence of juggling on mental rotation performance (Petra Jansen, Corinna Titze, Martin Heil)

n. 3 - July-Semptember 2009

• Mental skill profiles and expertise levels of elite Iranian athletes (John H. Salmela, Shamsi S. Monfared, Fatolla Mosayebi, Natalie Durand-Bush)
• The effect of implicit and explicit methods in acquisition of anticipation skill in low and high complexity situations (Evandros Votsis, George Tzetzis, Vasilia Hatzitaki, V. George Grouios)
• The influence of assimilation and differentiation needs on sport team preferences: The quest for optimal distinctiveness (James A. Dimmock)
• Differences in processing of game information in basketball players, coaches and referees (Clare Macmahon, Janet L. Starkes, Janice Deakin)
• Perceived development of psychological characteristics in male and female elite gymnasts (Fabienne D'arripe-Longueville, Magaly Hars, Nadine Debois, Claire Calmels)

n. 4 - October-December 2009

• Sensitivity to fine-grained and coarse visual information: The effect of blurring on anticipation skill (Robin C. Jackson, Bruce Abernethy, Simon Wernhart)
• The influence of processing time on expert anticipation (John Baker, Damian Farrow, Bruce Elliott, Jacqueline Anderson)
• Differences in oculomotor behaviour between elite athletes from visually and non-visually oriented sports (Stuart Morgan, John Patterson)
• Representative task designs for the study of perception and action in sport (Matt Dicks, Keith Davids, Chris Button)
• Developmental influences on the acquisition of tactical decision-making expertise (Jason Berry, Bruce Abernethy)
• The influence of viewing perspective on decision-making and visual search behaviour in an invasive sport (David L. Mann, Damian Farrow, Richard Shuttleworth, Melissa Hopwood)
• Knowledge base as a mechanism for perceptual-cognitive tasks: Skill is in the details! (Clare Macmahon, Sue L.mcpherson)
• Insights from Ecological Psychology and Dynamical Systems. Theory can underpin a philosophy of coaching (Ian Renshaw, Keith Davids, Rick Shuttleworth, Jia Yi Chow)
• The use of motor learning in Biomechanics: A call for more collaboration (Alec Buttifield, Kevin Ball, Clare Mac Mahon)
• End-point focus of attention: Learning the ‘Catch’ in Rowing (Richard Parr, Chris Button)
• The paradoxical role of cognitive effort in contextual interference and Implicit Motor Learning (Megan A. Rendell, Rich S.w. Masters, Damian Farrow)