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Gabriele Wulf is affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on sport psychology and performance as well as sports performance and training.

The scientist has contributed to numerous studies in various subfields, including developmental and educational psychology, orthopedics and sports medicine, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and human-computer interaction. Their work often centers on topics like motivation and self-concept in sports, motor control and adaptation, virtual reality applications and impacts, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, and education, achievement, and giftedness.

Wulf's recent papers include the following:

  • Superiority of external attentional focus for motor performance and learning: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses (2021), Psychological Bulletin
  • The distance effect and level of expertise: Is the optimal external focus different for low-skilled and high-skilled performers? (2020), Human Movement Science
  • Translating Thoughts Into Action: Optimizing Motor Performance and Learning Through Brief Motivational and Attentional Influences (2021), Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • A distal external focus of attention facilitates compensatory coordination of body parts (2022), Journal of Sports Sciences
  • Mind over body: Creating an external focus for sport skills (2021), European Journal of Sport Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wulf include Rebecca Lewthwaite, Harjiv Singh, Lee-Kuen Chua, JongSeong An, and Zahra Khalaji.

Prominent venues where Wulf's work has been published include:

  • Human Movement Science
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Psychological Bulletin
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Journal of Sports Sciences

Best Publications

  • Attentional focus and motor learning: a review of 15 years

    Gabriele Wulf

  • The automaticity of complex motor skill learning as a function of attentional focus

    Gabriele Wulf;Nancy McNevin;Charles H. Shea

  • Optimizing performance through intrinsic motivation and attention for learning: The OPTIMAL theory of motor learning

    Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Motor skill learning and performance: a review of influential factors.

    Gabriele Wulf;Charles Shea;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Principles derived from the study of simple skills do not generalize to complex skill learning.

    Gabriele Wulf;Charles H. Shea

  • Instructions for Motor Learning: Differential Effects of Internal Versus External Focus of Attention

    Gabriele Wulf;Markus Höß;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Directing attention to movement effects enhances learning: a review.

    Gabriele Wulf;Wolfgang Prinz

  • Increasing the distance of an external focus of attention enhances learning.

    Nancy H. McNevin;Charles H. Shea;Gabriele Wulf

  • Attention and Motor Skill Learning

    Gabriele Wulf

  • Enhancing the Learning of Sport Skills Through External-Focus Feedback

    Gabriele Wulf;Nathan McConnel;Matthias Gärtner;Andreas Schwarz

  • Increased movement accuracy and reduced EMG activity as the result of adopting an external focus of attention.

    Tiffany Zachry;Gabriele Wulf;John Mercer;Neil Bezodis

  • The learning advantages of an external focus of attention in golf.

    Gabriele Wulf;Barbara Lauterbach;Tonya Toole

  • Principles of Motor Learning in Treatment of Motor Speech Disorders

    Edwin Maas;Donald A. Robin;Shannon N. Austermann Hula;Skott E. Freedman

  • An external focus of attention enhances golf shot accuracy in beginners and experts.

    Gabriele Wulf;Jiang Su

  • Attention and Motor Performance: Preferences for and Advantages of an External Focus

    Gabriele Wulf;Charles Shea;Jin-Hoon Park

  • Self-Controlled Feedback: Does it Enhance Learning Because Performers Get Feedback When They Need It?

    Suzete Chiviacowsky;Gabriele Wulf

  • Enhancing motor learning through external-focus instructions and feedback

    Charles H Shea;Gabriele Wulf

  • EMG activity as a function of the performer's focus of attention.

    Jason Vance;Gabriele Wulf;Thomas Töllner;Nancy McNevin

  • Feedback After Good Trials Enhances Learning

    Suzete Chiviacowsky;Gabrielle Wulf

  • Self-controlled feedback is effective if it is based on the learner's performance.

    Suzete Chiviacowsky;Gabriele Wulf

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy D. Lee
Timothy D. Lee McMaster University
Peter A. Hancock
Peter A. Hancock University of Central Florida
Wolfgang Prinz
Wolfgang Prinz Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Heiner Deubel
Heiner Deubel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thomas Fuchs
Thomas Fuchs University of Göttingen
Donald G. MacKay
Donald G. MacKay University of California, Los Angeles
Kirrie J. Ballard
Kirrie J. Ballard University of Sydney
Vasiliki Totsika
Vasiliki Totsika University College London
Gernot Horstmann
Gernot Horstmann Bielefeld University

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