general updates, trainees in the spotlight

Springing into summer

It was a full team effort during the winter days of data collection, and we’re feeling grateful for the hands, minds, and ideas that keep this lab moving forward.

Spring brought a fantastic opportunity to connect with and learn from colleagues, and to share preliminary findings from our work:

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3 day meeting on knoweldge translation in motor control

We hosted a three‑day meeting on knowledge translation in motor control with Drs. Welsh (U of T), Neyedli (Dalhousie), Manson (Queen’s), and Karlinksy (Cal State U San Bernardino). At this meeting, we also began developing a pre-conference workshop for the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology. Stay tuned!

Attending Neural Control of Movement

In spring, we attended some excellent sessions at the Neural Control of Movement, where former PDF Matt Scott presented work showing that we can simultaneously represent observed and imagined actions, and where we had a chance to observe expert motor control in action!

The upcoming Canadian Stroke Congress

We’re excited to share that PDF Justine will be presenting her recent work at the Canadian Stroke Congress, on how motor imagery can help make steadier hand and arm movements after stroke.

Come find us at P2.F.98!

We also celebrated the successful MSc defense of AnnaMae and honour’s theses presentations from Sofia and Marlo! And to top it all off, PhD student Alisha received the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Student Award recognizing her energy, dedication, and leadership in the Department!

And now, summer is here! More to come as the season unfolds!

trainees in the spotlight

That’s a wrap on #RIO2025

Wrapped up an excellent Research in Imagery and Observation meeting with talks from trainee Sara Klick (motor imagery-related brain activation after stroke), and soon off for his tenure-track position Dr. Matt Scott (mechanisms of simultaneous observation and imagery of movement, or ‘AOMI’). Thanks to Dr. Robert Hardwick, the BAS lab, and UC Louvain for hosting! Pictured: NIMBL at the conference (left); NIMBL exploring beautiful Brussels before heading back to Canada (missing Matt – bottom).

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NIMBL goes to Brussels!

We’ve arrived at UCLouvain and had a great first day at the Research in Imagery and Observation meeting. Kicked things off with an excellent symposium our ability to imagine movements. We also heard from trainees Kyle Vallido and Celine Balay, who presented on neural mechanisms of kinaesthetic vs. visual motor imagery (Kyle, photo #1), and the use of virtual reality to provide feedback during motor imagery-based learning (Celine, photo #2). Looking forward to another great line up of talks tomorrow!

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Eyes on the Scott lab, coming soon to Texas A&M!

Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Matthew Scott will be joining the Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management, Division of Motor Neuroscience, at Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor this July. He is set to launch the Motor Cognition, Neuroscience and Behavior Lab! Huge congratulations Matt!
You can follow Matt’s journey here: https://bsky.app/profile/mattscott93.bsky.social