Equipment and facilities

The Motor Skills Lab is well equipped with hardware and software that enables the study of motor learning. We have just relocated from the War Memorial Gym to the brand new Gateway Building, which is a beautful building with wooden structures throughout at the entrance to the UBC Vancouver campus. We have a large space, with high ceilings, for the testing of whole-body movement/sport skills. There are also 2 separated work stations within the main lab for quiet testing, as well as a separated graduate student and research personnel space next to the labs. We are now integrated with the other neuromechanical labs in Kinesiology on the 2nd floor of the new Gateway Building. In addtion to collaborators in Kin, we also collaborate with researchers at UBC-O /Okanagan in Psychology (Dr Sarah Kraeutner) as well as at UBC-V/Vancouver in Physical Therapy (Dr Lara Boyd), and Psychology (Dr Alan Kingstone). As well, we have various collaborators nationally and across the globe (USA, UK, Germany, Australia). These collaborations afford opportunities for travel and study as well as additional access to tools and equipment (such as a KINARM, EEG and tdcs systems, TMS, VR and eye gaze tracking).