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Aidan Moran
Researcher at University College Dublin
Publications - 141
Citations - 5958
Aidan Moran is an academic researcher from University College Dublin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sport psychology & Athletes. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 141 publications receiving 5137 citations. Previous affiliations of Aidan Moran include Queen's University Belfast & National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Does mental practice enhance performance
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the literature on mental practice was conducted to determine the effect of mental practice on performance and to identify conditions under which mental practice is most effective.
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Defining elite athletes: Issues in the study of expert performance in sport psychology
TL;DR: A comprehensive literature search of SPORTDiscus, Academic Search Complete, PsycINFO, and PsycARTICLES was completed in September 2013 which yielded 91 empirical studies published between 2010 and 2013 as mentioned in this paper.
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Mental practice enhances surgical technical skills: a randomized controlled study.
Sonal Arora,Rajesh Aggarwal,Pramudith Sirimanna,Aidan Moran,Teodor P. Grantcharov,Roger Kneebone,Nick Sevdalis,Ara Darzi +7 more
TL;DR: This is the first randomized controlled study to show that MP enhances the quality of performance based on VR laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and may be a time- and cost-effective strategy to augment traditional training in the OR thus potentially improving patient care.
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The Effect of Mindfulness Training on Athletes’ Flow: An Initial Investigation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between mindfulness training and flow experiences in athletes and found a significant interaction between the experimental and control groups' FSS-2 global scores at the baseline training session, but a large difference (p <.05, d = 1.66) at a follow-up training session.
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The Psychology of Concentration in Sport Performers: A Cognitive Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the psychology of concentration in sport and mental factors in athletic performance, including external and internal distractions measuring attentional processes in athletes, from brain states to individual differences.