Sport and Performance Psychology
Optimising movement skills
Performing a complex gymnastics exercise under great mental pressure or shooting a three-pointer during a basketball game. How does a performer most effectively train movement skills to achieve the best result? The Sport and Performance Psychology research group investigates how to optimise movement skills in various circumstances, whether in sport, music or dance.
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The expert of Sport and Performance Psychology
Raôul Oudejans
Professor Sport and Performance Psychology
Raôul Oudejans is a professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at the AUAS. In addition, he is an associate professor in the Department of Human Movement Sciences at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, where he has worked since 1992. The professorship is part of the collaboration between the VU and AUAS under the banner of the Amsterdam Institute of Sport Science.
