News and events
| New publication in Human Movement Science |
Posted 02 Jul 2026 Congratulations to Carrie for her second publication of her PhD thesis work.The paper is published open access in Human Movement Science: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167945726000552 "Dissociating variability from error-based processes in observational learning" |
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| MSL Graduates 2026 |
Posted 29 Jun 2026 Many congratulations to the MSL graduates this Spring, Porter Trevisan, AnnaMae Pond and Jost HausendorfWishing you all the best in your future careers.Thesis titles are below and we are in the process of writing up these papers for publication.Porter thesis title: Investigating the Relationships Between Success and Within-Sport Diversity in Canadian Competitive Swimmers |
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| Soccer Pathways update |
Posted 04 Feb 2026 The first paper on the "soccer pathways project" is now published. We are planning three papers. The first is published in Science and Medicine in Football. This first paper is a snapshot of the activity histories of the over 200 athletes who took part in this study. All athletes show sport diversity in childhood, but there is not more (or less) in the higher groups. |
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| New paper published in Psych. Research |
Posted 26 Nov 2025 Evidence for the dominance of visual-perceptual mechanisms of action prediction following isolated and sequential visual and motor practiceDesmond Mulligan, Matthew W. Scott and Nicola J. Hodges.FREE READ ONLY VIEWPsychological Research, (2025) 89:178https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-025-02202-4 |
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| SCAPPS News |
Posted 10 Sep 2025 SCAPPS is to take place in PEI Oct 2nd-5th, This will be a very special event as Carrie won the Franklin Henry Young Scientist award for Motor Learning and Control. Congrats Carrie! |
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| Goodbye and Best wishes to Matt |
Posted 30 May 2025 We are sad that after 3 years with the Motor Skills Lab, Matt Scott is leaving us to go to Texas A&M. We wish you all the best Matt in your new country and job and hope to stay a friend of the lab... both socially and in research,Congrats Dr Scott! ...and fond farewell! |
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| A successful RIO conference |
Posted 30 May 2025 Matt Scott, Carrie Peters and I attended RIO in Brussels, Belgium. There was a good Canadian contingent there, despite the miles! Carrie and Matt both gave excellent, well received presentations. We were joined by the UBC-O group of our collaborator Sarah Kraeutner and her students; especially Kyle Vallido who is collaborating on work with the Motor Skills Lab. Congrats to all for great presentations. |
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| Carrie Peters does the double and wins Best student Presentation at RIO |
Posted 30 May 2025 Carrie Peters does the double and wins another award, this time, best student presentation award at RIO (Researchers in IMagery and Observation) conference, at UC Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. Congrats Carrie. Here presentation was titled:"Swing and a miss: Testing observation-induced prediction errors in golf putting" |
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| Carrie Peters wins Killam Teaching award |
Posted 30 May 2025 Congratulations Carrie... this is a really significant award at the University level.This was the small paragraph helping to illustrate Carrie's accomplishments |
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| INVITED articles for Special Issue on Social Motor Learning_Jn Motor Learning & Dev. |
Posted 18 Dec 2024 |
