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Overview

Rebecca Lewthwaite is affiliated with Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields including medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with a particular focus on rehabilitation and motor performance.

The main subfields of their study include cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, orthopedics and sports medicine, and rehabilitation. Their work covers key topics such as sport psychology and performance, motivation and self-concept in sports, sports performance and training, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, balance, gait, and falls prevention, as well as musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

Several of Lewthwaite's recent papers include:

  • Superiority of external attentional focus for motor performance and learning: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • Translating Thoughts Into Action: Optimizing Motor Performance and Learning Through Brief Motivational and Attentional Influences, 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Essential Role of Social Context and Self-Efficacy in Daily Paretic Arm/Hand Use After Stroke: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study With Accelerometry, 2022, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Choose your words wisely: Optimizing impacts on standardized performance testing, 2020, Gait & Posture
  • A Novel Combination of Accelerometry and Ecological Momentary Assessment for Post-Stroke Paretic Arm/Hand Use: Feasibility and Validity, 2021, Journal of Clinical Medicine

The publication venues where Lewthwaite frequently appears include:

  • Psychological Bulletin
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Gait & Posture

Frequent co-authors working alongside Lewthwaite are:

  • Gabriele Wulf
  • John Monterosso
  • Carolee J. Winstein
  • Beth E. Fisher
  • Lee-Kuen Chua

The body of work demonstrates a consistent interest in understanding and improving motor learning and rehabilitation outcomes through motivational, attentional, and contextual factors. Studies often integrate objective measures like accelerometry with ecological momentary assessment to capture real-world functional use and recovery patterns, especially relating to stroke and cerebral palsy populations.

Rebecca Lewthwaite's research portfolio reflects a multidisciplinary approach aimed at advancing knowledge in both clinical and performance domains, bridging gaps between psychological theory and physical rehabilitation.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • A randomized controlled comparison of upper-extremity rehabilitation strategies in acute stroke: A pilot study of immediate and long-term outcomes

    Carolee J Winstein;Carolee J Winstein;Dorian K Rose;Sylvia M Tan;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Choose to move: The motivational impact of autonomy support on motor learning

    Rebecca Lewthwaite;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Suzete Chiviacowsky;Ricardo Drews;Gabriele Wulf

  • Social Psychological Aspects of Competition for Male Youth Sport Participants: IV. Predictors of Enjoyment

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  • Effect of a Task-Oriented Rehabilitation Program on Upper Extremity Recovery Following Motor Stroke: The ICARE Randomized Clinical Trial

    Carolee J. Winstein;Steven L. Wolf;Alexander W. Dromerick;Christianne J. Lane

  • Effects of Physical Guidance and Knowledge of Results on Motor Learning: Support for the Guidance Hypothesis

    Carolee J. Winstein;Patricia S. Pohl;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • External focus instructions reduce postural instability in individuals with Parkinson disease.

    Gabriele Wulf;Merrill Landers;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Thomas Töllner

  • Autonomy support enhances performance expectancies, positive affect, and motor learning

    Anielle Lemos;Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Suzete Chiviacowsky

  • Social-comparative feedback affects motor skill learning

    Rebecca Lewthwaite;Gabriele Wulf

  • Autonomy facilitates repeated maximum force productions.

    Takehiro Iwatsuki;Reza Abdollahipour;Rudolf Psotta;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Effortless motor learning?: An external focus of attention enhances movement effectiveness and efficiency.

    Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Infusing Motor Learning Research Into Neurorehabilitation Practice: A Historical Perspective With Case Exemplar From the Accelerated Skill Acquisition Program

    Carolee Winstein;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Sarah R. Blanton;Lois B. Wolf

  • Social Psychological Aspects of Competition for Male Youth Sport Participants: I. Predictors of Competitive Stress

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  • Positive social-comparative feedback enhances motor learning in children

    Luciana T.G. Ávila;Suzete Chiviacowsky;Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Self-Controlled Learning: The Importance of Protecting Perceptions of Competence

    Suzete Chiviacowsky;Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Altering mindset can enhance motor learning in older adults.

    Gabriele Wulf;Suzete Chiviacowsky;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Normative Feedback Effects on Learning a Timing Task

    Gabrielle Wulf;Suzete Chiviacowsky;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Superiority of external attentional focus for motor performance and learning: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

    Lee-Kuen Chua;Judith Jimenez-Diaz;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Taewon Kim

  • Motor learning benefits of self-controlled practice in persons with Parkinson's disease.

    Suzete Chiviacowsky;Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite;Tiago Campos

  • Additive benefits of external focus and enhanced performance expectancy for motor learning

    Luigi A. M. Pascua;Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Impacts of autonomy-supportive versus controlling instructional language on motor learning

    Andrew Hooyman;Gabriele Wulf;Rebecca Lewthwaite

  • Optimizing motivation and attention for motor performance and learning.

    Rebecca Lewthwaite;Gabriele Wulf

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriele Wulf
Gabriele Wulf University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Carolee J. Winstein
Carolee J. Winstein University of Southern California
Nicolas Schweighofer
Nicolas Schweighofer University of Southern California
John Monterosso
John Monterosso University of Southern California
Helena C. Chui
Helena C. Chui University of Southern California
Amy K. Wagner
Amy K. Wagner University of Pittsburgh
Lara A. Boyd
Lara A. Boyd University of British Columbia

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