John Van Der Kamp

Biographic Data

ID3746872
NAMEJohn Van Der Kamp
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEVan Der Kamp
SIGNATUREVAN DER KAMP J
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The impact of practice constraints on the emergence of movement variability and creativity in a boxing task

    Open AccessFaezeh Mohammadi Sanjani, Dominic Orth et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026

    This study aimed to examine whether targeted manipulation of constraints to induce broad search during practice of a boxing task leads to increases in movement variability and creativity. Thirty-four participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups to practice striking a boxing bag: different distances (N = 12), single distance (N = 12), no practice (control) (N = 10). The different distances group practiced hitting the bag from differe…

  • On Response-Ability in a Time of Ecological Collapse

    Open AccessCarl T Woods, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEEcological Psychology2026

  • Learning how to swim in 5- to 12-year-old children: A scoping review of evidence-based motor learning methods

    Open AccessCarola Minkels, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2025

    Background Swimming is widely acknowledged for its safety and health benefits. Across the world children are receiving swimming lessons in which a variety of learning methods are employed. However, little is known about the effectiveness of those methods, and a comprehensive overview of pertinent research is lacking. Such an overview is needed for both researchers and instructors seeking to improve swimming skill acquisition in children. Objectiv…

  • A Differentiated Field of Affordances: Redefining Perceptual Skill in Physical Education Teachers

    Open AccessLuke McDonic, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEEcological Psychology2025

    Quality physical education (PE) promotes physical activity and, consequently, children’s health and wellbeing. The provision of quality PE depends largely on the interactions between PE teachers and students. PE teachers use observation to guide these interactions and, therefore, require perceptual skill. Perceptual skill in PE teachers is traditionally viewed as the accurate perception of students’ movement errors—deviations from a normative mov…

  • Conceptualizing the Environment in a Time of Ecological Collapse

    Open AccessRob Withagen, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEEcological Psychology2025

    We live in troubling times. Amongst global political instability, rising economic inequality and a rapacious Western consumerist lifestyle, we face the impending risks of global warming and ecological collapse. In this short opinion paper, we bring this topic to the agenda of ecological psychology in the hope of stimulating fruitful conversation. To do so, we ask how ecological psychologists should conceptualize the environment in these precariou…

  • No training effects of top-down controlled response inhibition by practicing on the stop-signal task

    Open AccessYihong You, Alberto Failla et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2023

    The aim of the current study is to examine if the top-down controlled response inhibition on a stop-signal task (SST) can be trained. Results from previous studies have been equivocal, possibly because signal-response combinations are often not varied across training and test phases, allowing bottom-up signal-response associations to be formed that may improve response inhibition. The current study compared the response inhibition on the SST in a…

  • The influence of locative expressions on context-dependency of endpoint control in aiming

    Open AccessRaimey Olthuis, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2021

    It has been claimed that increased reliance on context, or allocentric information, develops when aiming movements are more consciously monitored and/or controlled. Since verbalizing target features requires strong conscious monitoring, we expected an increased reliance on allocentric information when verbalizing a target label (i.e. target number) during movement execution. We examined swiping actions towards a global array of targets embedded i…

  • Moving Advertisements Systematically Affect Gaze Behavior and Performance in the Soccer Penalty Kick

    Open AccessGareth Paterson, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2020Cited by: 2References: 34

    The aim of the current study was to investigate whether a moving advertisement positioned behind the goal area would influence the visual attention of participants performing a soccer penalty kick, and, whether this would an effect on subsequent motor performance. It was hypothesized that if the (moving) advertisement would function as a distractor, then this would result in non-specific disruptions in penalty performance measures, especially aff…

  • On the Education About/of Radical Embodied Cognition

    Open AccessJill Van Der Kamp, John Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2019Cited by: 5References: 1

    In mainstream or strong university education, the teacher selects and transmits knowledge and skills that students are to acquire and reproduce. Many researchers of radical embodied cognitive science still adhere to this way of teaching, even though this prescriptive pedagogy deeply contrasts with the theoretical underpinnings of their science. In this paper, we search for alternative ways of teaching that are more aligned with the central non-pr…

  • An ecological approach to creativity in making

    Open AccessRob Withagen, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLENew Ideas in Psychology2017Cited by: 6References: 7

  • Gibsonian neuroscience

    Open AccessMatthieu M de Wit, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLETheory & Psychology2016

  • Asymmetries in spatial perception are more prevalent under explicit than implicit attention

    Open AccessBenjamin Noël, Ben Noel et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2015

  • Distinct task-independent visual thresholds for egocentric and allocentric information pick up

    Open AccessMatthieu M de Wit, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2012

  • Differential effects of a visual illusion on online visual guidance in a stable environment and online adjustments to perturbations

    Open AccessSimone R Caljouw, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2011

  • The relation between infants' perception of catchableness and the control of catching

    Paulion van Hof, Jill Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2008References: 3

    The authors studied how infants come to perceive and act adaptively by presenting 35 three- to nine-month-olds with balls that approached at various speeds according to a staircase procedure. They determined whether infants attempted to reach for the ball and whether they were successful (i.e., contacted the ball). In addition, the time and distance of the ball at the onset of the catching movements were measured for the successful interceptions.…

  • The Separation of Action and Perception and the Issue of Affordances

    Jill Van Der Kamp, John Van Der Kamp et al.ARTICLEEcological Psychology2001

    reassessment of the relation between action and perception is endorsed. In alignment with However, how should the concept of affordances be incorporated into this scheme? We present data showing that affordances, both when perceived and acted on, are not susceptible to optical illusions. Because action and perception are distinguished on the basis of information used, but are also proposed to interact, it is hypothesized that, dependent on the ta…