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Meta-Imagery in Sport: Beyond Mental Rot…
Mental imagery has been the subject of over a Century of testing on individual differences culminating with the development of the mental rotations paradigm (Shepard & Metzler, 1970)....
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ICOT presentation: Meta-attention by Mar…
As William James, one of the founding fathers of psychology famously declared, “Everyone knows what attention is” (1890). Or do we? Meta-attention, quite simply, relates to ones understanding...
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ICOT presentation: Metacognition and PST
Metacognition has been described as “having knowledge or awareness of one’s own cognitive processes” (Statt, 1998). This ability underpins both monitoring and control mechanisms in human thinking (Nelson & Nahren,...
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Metacognition in Spo…
A symposium on metacognition in sport will form part of the ICOT series to be held in QUB, Belfast, Ireland, in June 2011. The symposium entitled "METACOGNITION IN SPORT: 3,…
New Book on Motor Im…
This new monograph, edited by Christian Collet and Aymeric Guillot, is a monumental work summarising the latest issues on motor imagery with implications for cognitive neuroscience, sport psychology and the…
How mirror neurons a…
The old adage that we can only learn how to do something by trying it ourselves may have to be revised in the light of recent discoveries in neuroscience. It…
Motor Cognition: An …
The emerging field of "motor cognition" is concerned with the mental processes by which the motor system plans and produces skilled actions. A key topic in this field is "motor…
Presentation at the …
This paper describes an emerging field of study, termed motor cognition, is concerned with understanding the representation of action and the associated processes. It has developed from a series of…
Research in Imagery …
Imagery & observation researchers are gathering in Lincoln, UK for a research meeting on March 11th, 2009. Our group are presenting: Turning concepts over in your mind: A conceptual analysis…
Joint Presentation o…
A joint symposium on imagery brings together French and Irish researchers. Professor Christian Collet and Dr. Aymeric Guillot from the STAPS lab will present findings and a theoretical framework. Professor…
Golf study at UCD In…
Golf Study received valuable equipment as their UCD funded project provided them with the latest technology to analyse golf-putting. The SAM PUTTLAB uses ultra-sound to measure the kinematics of the…
Professor Kosslyn to…
Prof Stephen Kosslyn (Chair of the Dept of Psychology, Harvard University) will be visiting UCD's Research Lab between 22 and 28 August. All staff and postgrads from the School of…
Recent Publications
Professional sport psychology in Ireland…
MacIntyre, T., Mahoney, C., & Moran, A. (1998). Professional sport psychology in Ireland. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 19, 504-515. Citations 4.
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There's more to an image than meets the…
Moran, A., & MacIntyre, T. (1998). There's more to an image than meets the eye: A qualitative study of kinaesthetic imagery among canoe-slalomists. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 19, 406-423. Citations 15.
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Is controllability of imagery realted to…
MacIntyre, T., Moran, A. & Jennings, D.J. (2002). Is controllability of imagery realted to canoe-slalom performance? Perceptual and Motor Skills, 94, 1245-1250. Citations 15; Impact Factor 0.55.
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Exploring imagery us…
MacIntyre, T. & Moran, A. (2007). Exploring imagery use and meta-imagery processes: Qualitative investigations with an elite multi-sport sample. Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity. Vol. 2, Article 4. Citations 12.
Exploring imagery u…
MacIntyre, T. & Moran, A. (2007). Exploring imagery use and meta-imagery processes: Qualitative investigations with elite canoe-slalom athletes. Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity, Vol. 2, Article 3. Citations 12. Citations…
The development and…
Moran, A., Guerin, S., Kirby, K., & MacIntyre, T. (2008). The development and validation of a Doping Attitudes and Behaviour Scale: Final Report to World Anti-Doping Agency. Lausanne: WADA. See http://www.wada-ama.org/rtecontent/document/moran_final_report.pdf Citations 4.
Meta-Imagery proces…
MacIntyre, T. & Moran, A. P. (2009). Meta-Imagery processes among elite sports performers. In A. Guillot & C. Collet (Eds.), The neurophysiological foundations of mental and motor imagery (pp.227-244). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Citations 8.
Measuring Motor Imag…
Collet, C. & Guillot, A., Lebon, F., MacIntyre, T. & Moran, A. (2011). Measuring Motor Imagery: Combining Psychometric, Qualitative, Chronometric, and Psychophysiological Techniques. Exercise & Sport Sciences Reviews, 39, 89-92. Citations 7; Impact Factor 3.82
Re-imagining Mental …
Moran, A., Guillot, A., MacIntyre, T. & Guillot, C. (2012). Re-imagining Mental Imagery: Building Bridges between Cognitive Neuroscience and Sport Psychology. British Journal of Psychology, 103, 224-247.
What have the Romans…
MacIntyre, T. (2012). What have the Romans ever done for us? The contribution of sport and exercise psychology to mainstream psychology. The Psychologist, 25 (7), 2-3.
A motor cognition ap…
Moran, A. & MacIntyre, T. (In press). A motor cognition approach to visual imagery perspective. Journal of Mental Imagery (Commentary on: A Default Hypothesis of the Development of Internal and External Imagery Perspectives).
Measuring Motor Imag…
Exercise and Sport Science Reviews Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 85Y92, 2011 COLLET, C., A. GUILLOT, F. LEBON, T. MACINTYRE, and A. MORAN. This review examines the measurement of motor imagery (MI) processes.…
