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Citations
10623
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Mark R. Wilson is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia. Their research spans the interdisciplinary fields of psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work covers various subfields, including orthopedics and sports medicine, human-computer interaction, and social psychology. Their research topics emphasize sport psychology and performance, virtual reality applications and impacts, neural and behavioral psychology studies, balance, gait, and falls prevention, as well as motor control and adaptation.

Frequent publication venues for Mark R. Wilson include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Virtual Reality
  • Psychology of sport and exercise
  • Age and Ageing

Their numerous collaborators include:

  • David Harris
  • Samuel J. Vine
  • Tom Arthur
  • William R. Young
  • Gavin Buckingham

Among their recent publications are:

  • "A Framework for the Testing and Validation of Simulated Environments in Experimentation and Training" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between flow states and performance" (2021, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology)
  • "The effect of a virtual reality environment on gaze behaviour and motor skill learning" (2020, Psychology of Sport and Exercise)
  • "The perceived control model of falling: developing a unified framework to understand and assess maladaptive fear of falling" (2023, Age and Ageing)
  • "Protective or harmful? A qualitative exploration of older people's perceptions of worries about falling" (2022, Age and Ageing)

Mark R. Wilson has been recognized by the American Psychological Association as a Fellow since 2007. Their body of work integrates advanced methodologies in virtual reality and behavioral studies to explore mechanisms of motor learning, performance, and psychological states related to balance and fall prevention.

Best Publications

  • The influence of anxiety on visual attentional control in basketball free throw shooting.

    Mark R. Wilson;Samuel J. Vine;Greg Wood

  • Development and Validation of a Surgical Workload Measure: The Surgery Task Load Index (SURG-TLX)

    Mark R. Wilson;Jamie M. Poolton;Neha Malhotra;Karen Ngo

  • Anxiety, Attentional Control, and Performance Impairment in Penalty Kicks

    Mark R. Wilson;Greg Wood;Samuel J. Vine

  • Quiet eye training facilitates competitive putting performance in elite golfers.

    Samuel James Vine;Lee Moore;Mark R. Wilson

  • The effect of challenge and threat states on performance: an examination of potential mechanisms.

    Lee J Moore;Samuel J Vine;Mark R Wilson;Paul Freeman

  • The influence of quiet eye training and pressure on attention and visuo-motor control.

    Samuel J. Vine;Mark R. Wilson

  • State anxiety and visual attention: The role of the quiet eye period in aiming to a far target

    Michael Behan;Mark Wilson

  • Quiet eye training expedites motor learning and aids performance under heightened anxiety: The roles of response programming and external attention

    Lee J. Moore;Samuel J. Vine;Andrew Cooke;Christopher Ring

  • Quiet eye training: The acquisition, refinement and resilient performance of targeting skills

    Samuel J Vine;Lee J Moore;Mark R Wilson

  • Psychomotor control in a virtual laparoscopic surgery training environment: gaze control parameters differentiate novices from experts.

    Mark Wilson;John McGrath;Samuel Vine;James Brewer

  • Gaze training enhances laparoscopic technical skill acquisition and multi-tasking performance: a randomized, controlled study

    Mark R. Wilson;Samuel J. Vine;Elizabeth Bright;Rich S. W. Masters

  • From processing efficiency to attentional control: a mechanistic account of the anxiety-performance relationship

    Mark Wilson

  • Neural co-activation as a yardstick of implicit motor learning and the propensity for conscious control of movement.

    F F Zhu;Jamie M Poolton;Mark R Wilson;Mark R Wilson;J P Maxwell

  • Quiet Eye Training: Effects on Learning and Performance Under Pressure

    Samuel J. Vine;Mark R. Wilson

  • The role of effort in influencing the effect of anxiety on performance : testing the conflicting predictions of processing efficiency theory and the conscious processing hypothesis

    Mark Wilson;Mark Wilson;Nickolas C. Smith;Paul S. Holmes

  • Using a Delphi Technique to Seek Consensus Regarding Definitions, Descriptions and Classification of Terms Related to Implicit and Explicit Forms of Motor Learning

    Melanie Kleynen;Susy M. Braun;Michel H. Bleijlevens;Monique A. Lexis

  • Quiet-eye training for soccer penalty kicks.

    Greg Wood;Mark R. Wilson

  • A framework for the testing and validation of simulated environments in experimentation and training

    David J Harris;Jonathan M Bird;Philip A Smart;Mark R Wilson

  • A moving goalkeeper distracts penalty takers and impairs shooting accuracy

    Greg Wood;Mark R. Wilson

  • Champ or chump? Challenge and threat states during pressurized competition

    Lee J Moore;Mark R Wilson;Samuel J Vine;Adam H Coussens

  • Cheating experience: Guiding novices to adopt the gaze strategies of experts expedites the learning of technical laparoscopic skills

    Samuel J. Vine;Rich S.W. Masters;John S. McGrath;Elizabeth Bright

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel J. Vine
Samuel J. Vine University of Exeter
Rich S. W. Masters
Rich S. W. Masters University of Waikato
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Mark Mon-Williams
Mark Mon-Williams University of Leeds
Nazanin Derakshan
Nazanin Derakshan Birkbeck, University of London
Jean Côté
Jean Côté Queen's University
Christopher Ring
Christopher Ring University of Birmingham
Tim J. Smith
Tim J. Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Paul S. Holmes
Paul S. Holmes Manchester Metropolitan University
Mark Brosnan
Mark Brosnan University of Bath

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