News and events
| 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. |
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| 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: |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Coaching Association of Canada features our work |
Posted 13 Apr 2024 Based on our recent paper: "Effective practice and instruction: A skill acquistion framework for excellence" (Williams & Hodges, 2023, Jn of Sports Sciences), the Coaching Ass. of Canada (CAC) has featured snapshots from our paper in their monthly newsletter "Inside Coaching" under research insights. |
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| CoCoA _ COgnitive COntrol of Action workshop at Princeton U. |
Posted 09 Mar 2024 We are very excited to be invited to the first CoCoA workshop on motor learning to be held at Princeton University, March 15-16th.This event is being hosted by Jordan Taylor, Adrian Haith and Sam McDougle.Carrie Peters and I will be presenting work related to how observed errors can unintentionally impact performance and learning. |
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| "The Sport Psych Show" Podcast interview on new publication |
Posted 06 Dec 2023 Visit the website to hear the interview: https://thesportpsychshow.libsyn.com/261-prof-mark-williams-prof-nicola-...For LINK to paper; please see "research", then "publications" and a copy of the paper is available after scrolling to the end. |
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| Zach Besler Successfully defends his MSc thesis |
Posted 17 Nov 2023 Congratulations Zach on a successful thesis and defence.Date: 2 November 2023 3:00 PM; Chan Gunn Pavilion, seminar room 200Title: Assessing the contributions of visual and motor experience to action prediction skill in baseballThesis Supervisor: Dr. Nicola HodgesCommittee members: Dr. Romeo Chua, Dr. Sean MüllerDefence Chair: Dr. Tania Lam |
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| Outside "magazine" features our work on skill acquisition |
Posted 07 Nov 2023 An article which was just published in the Jn of Sports Sciences has garnered some attention. |
