PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

The need for consistency in training, motor learning, technical preparation, and competition is well understood by coaches, athletes, and applied sport psychology (SP) consultants. A number of factors, however, can interfere with athletes' ability to perform or learn at an appropriate level during training, technical preparation, and competition. The term interference addresses the decrease in performance due to conflicts between different cognitive modules or motor structures within the human action system in a specific environmental constellation. In the psychological realm, interference is mostly discussed in the context of memory and learning. Interference is addressed as a memory problem that occurs when a learning process is impaired because of an existing, stabilized memory structure or when the activation of consolidated memory representations is affected because of newly learned material. Interference in learning with verbal material has been observed and studied for more than 100 years. Notably, the studies of the German ...