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20. Transfer of Learning | Why multisport athletes adapt faster
This week’s episode breaks down a 2005 paper from Applied Cognitive Psychology by Abernethy, Baker, and Côté examining whether pattern recognition skills can transfer across sports.
The study compares expert and non-expert athletes in basketball, netball, and field hockey using a pattern recall task based on real gameplay sequences.
The key question:
Can expertise in one sport carry over to another through shared perceptual-cognitive skills?
Results show:
Experts outperform non-experts in recalling structured patterns
Some evidence of transfer across sports
But transfer is inconsistent and…
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