Université de Fribourg

A psycholinguistic investigation of football players’mental representations of game situations: Does expertise count?

Gygax, Pascal ; Wagner-Egger, Pascal ; Parris, Ben ; Seiler, Roland ; Hauert, Claude-Alain

In order to progress through a competitive sporting event, athletes need to form mental representations of the situations they encounter. In this paper, we present three experiments exploring the mental representations of football players when presented with written material describing football game situations. Experiment 1 assessed off-line processing by having players of different levels...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Narrative activity within an institutional framework : how a rehabilitation team constructs problems that can be solved

Piccini, Chiara ; Carassa, Antonella (Dir.) ; Colombetti, Marco (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005.

This is a study about discursive practices of problem solving within a team of professionals who rehabilitate people with psycho-social problems. The study community is the team of Centro a.D., an organization located in the South of Switzerland. The research combines an ethnographic study of Centro a.D. with a qualitative analysis of recorded talk during team meetings. In particular, narrative...