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New MSc Grad!

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Congratulations to Darby on the successful defense of her MSc thesis this past September. Darby’s work looked at whether a person’s level of attentiveness predicted their ability to do motor imagery. Results pointed to working memory as being an important predictor, and now the focus of some of our future work. Congrats Darby!

Learning without doing!

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Can you learn a skill just by thinking about it? Recent work published by MSc graduate Sarah Kraeutner shows that you can. The work, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology – Human Perception and Performance – shows that people who imagined pressing keys in certain sequences learned the sequences just as well as those who actually pressed the keys. Sarah’s work has implications for the use of motor imagery alone to aid with learning.