Performance Psychology - Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion - Grand Format

Performance Psychology : Perception, Action, Cognition, and Emotion presents a scientific guide to performance psychology research, looking at the behavior of individuals and groups toward achieving specific goals. The book identifies factors that add to or take away from the ability to achieve those goals in music, performance arts, and sport. Empirical studies reviewed in this book employ a variety of methods, including experimental, diagnostic, and intervention approaches.
The book is structured in five sections. Section A introduces the building blocks of performance-cognition, perception, action, and emotion and their components (e.g., attention, memory, decision-making)-necessary to performance. Sections B through E investigate the links between the core capacities : action and cognition, perception and cognition, perception and action, and emotion and cognition.
These interactions are explored in different domains and reference theories, methods, and applications of performance research. Coverage includes measurement consideration in performance psychology, applications of performance psychology research in different domains, for different populations (e.g., older adults), and utilizing specific sensory organs (e.g., vision, hearing, etc.). The book also looks at the effects of pressure and stress on performance.