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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)....
Dr.Tadhg MacIntyre Comments (7) 22 Jun 2011 Hits:226 News
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...
Dr.Tadhg MacIntyre Comments (6) 22 Jun 2011 Hits:207 News
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…
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Measuring Motor Imagery Using Psychometr…
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....
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Re-imagining Motor Imagery: Building Bri…
British Journal of Psychology (in press) Aidan Patrick Moran, Ph.D.;Aymeric Guillot, PhD;Tadhg MacIntyre, PhD;Christian Collet, PhDOne of the most remarkable capacities of the mind is its ability to simulate sensations, actions...
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Imagery Use and Meta Imagery Processes i…
Administrator Comments (7) 04 Apr 2009 Hits:702 Articles