Michael Phelps, Serena Williams and Simone Biles have all been named the GOAT of their sport, but what makes them different from other swimmers, tennis players and gymnasts who never made it to the Olympic level? Brooke Macnamara, associate professor in the Purdue University Department of Psychological Sciences, is studying skill acquisition and expertise to help understand why these athletes stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[796,2192,263,387,2194,240,176,2193],"class_list":["post-44331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychological-sciences","category-research","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-brooke-macnamara","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-psychological-sciences","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-purdue-university","tag-research","tag-skill-acquisition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n