News and events

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!
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.
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"
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
INVITED articles for Special Issue on Social Motor Learning_Jn Motor Learning & Dev. Posted 18 Dec 2024
SCAPPS 2024 Posted 12 Nov 2024
An excellent showing by the Motor SKills Lab at SCAPPS 2024 in Winnipeg.Congrats to first time oral presenter Porter Trevisan, who presented work on the soccer pathways projects related to witihin and between sport diversity.Congrats too to more seasned presenters, Carrie Peters and Dr Matt Scott, who presented oral presentations on observational practice and learning from error and motor imagery respectively.Well done!Also, congrats to Anna Mae Pond and Jost Hausendorf for their poster presentations and discussions.
Imagery Special Issue_Psychological Research Posted 12 Aug 2024
Please see the new special issue on motor imagery. Some of our work is featured in this issue published by Psychological Research:Volume 88, Issue 6; September 2024Special issue on the Neurocognitive Mechanisms of imagery and imagery practice of motor actions. Issue Editors: Cornelia Frank, Aymeric Guillot, Stefan VogtPlease see "publications" for a free pre-proof version of our manuscript on this website. For full article and journal details:
FEPSAC conference in Innsbruck Posted 12 Aug 2024

Successful FEPSAC conference in the beautiful city of Innsbruck Austria. Congrats to Carrie on her contributions to an Imagery symposium hosted by Stephan Dahm from the U. of Innsbruck.  
NASPSPA in New Orleans Posted 02 Jul 2024

Congrats to all the student presenters at NASPSPA this year; including Porter Trevisan and AnnaMae Pond (first timers) and Carrie Peters (seasoned presenter!)...and celebrating "expertise in sports", thanks to the Symposium hosted by Marcus Raab, with contributions from Rouwen Canal Bruland, David Mann, myself and Mark WIlliams
Congratulations MSL grads Posted 27 May 2024

May 2024 saw Zach Besler (MSc) and three undergrad RAs from the Motor Skills Lab cross the stage at graduation. Congratulations to: Ryan Jin, Ellie Saplywy and Jean Fabrice

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