Rich S. W. Masters

TL;DR: The authors found that the skill of experts with a small pool of explicit knowledge is less likely to fail under pressure than that of experts without explicit knowledge of their skills, and that failure of expert motor skills is common in cases where performers are highly motivated to succeed.

TL;DR: A review of a diverse, temporally distributed, body of literature regarding the effects of conscious attention to movement can be found in this article, where the authors argue that the propensity for consciousness to control movements on-line is a function of individual personality differences, specific contexts and a broad range of contingent events that can be psychological, physiological, environmental or even mechanical.

TL;DR: In this article, it was hypothesized that individuals may have a predisposition for "reinvestment" of controlled processing, which will lead to skill failure under stress as a result of disruption of the automatic functioning of the skill.

TL;DR: The reported experiments challenge and support an independent, parallel processing model, which predicts that procedural and declarative knowledge can be acquired separately and that the former does not depend on the availability of working memory while the latter does.

TL;DR: It was concluded that accumulation of explicit rules to guide performance was responsible for the internal group's breakdown in performance under secondary task loading and may be responsible for some of the performance differences reported previously.