Theoretical advances in the motor learning literature from a nonlinear dynamics perspective might explain the processes that underlie the effect of different attentional focus instructions.
Theoretical advances in research on social capital serve to identify mainly two types of social capital: bonding (between individuals in a group) and bridging (between groups).
Theoretical advances supported by empirical evidence have been limited and have failed to keep pace with dramatic changes in hospital nursing care.
In the same way that genes passed on physical advances, the theoretical advances are passed on through writing.
Most of the time, we non-scientists make do with explanations of theoretical advances that are finally just collections of mystifying metaphors and hand-waving gestures.
The development of CBT for anxiety disorders provides a model: initial efforts produced moderate benefits, but when subsequent theoretical advances were translated into treatment, huge steps forward resulted.
Another important area of psycholinguistic research that has been strongly influenced by theoretical advances in linguistics and, more especially, by the development of generative grammar is speech perception.
What is truly remarkable is that observations and the theoretical advances associated with them, from particle physics to astronomy, have produced such progress that we are now being driven to address questions that science has previously shied away from.
When the Nobel prize is awarded for fundamental physics, the recipients are often at the end of their careers – or worse – because it can take decades for theoretical advances to be proved right by experiments.
Among solid materials, the greatest theoretical advances have been in the study of crystalline materials whose simple repetitive geometric arrays of atoms are multiple-particle systems that allow treatment by quantum mechanics.
As such, it may impede potentially crucial theoretical advances stemming from missed interactions.
