Industry Presentation Embodied Decision Making and Anticipation
The QUT SPRING group will be hosting a free industry presentation on skill acquisition and sport coaching.
Rouwen Canal Bruland from Germany will be the guest presenter.
Date: Tuesday 27 Mar 2025
Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: KG-OC-412, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane
Online: Zoom link here
This presentation will be valuable for coaches, strength and conditioning staff, sports scientists, health and physical education teachers, exercise physiologists, allied health professionals, students and other professionals working in exercise or sporting settings.
Abstract
Prof. Cañal Bruland will present and discuss the latest empirical work from his lab on embodied decision making and anticipation and outline future directions and practical implications. In relation to embodied decision making, he will present research addressing the question whether and how action dynamics and their associated costs affect decision making. For his research on anticipation, he will focus on a number of recent studies examining the use and integration of contextual as well as multisensory information in anticipation. Finally, he will propose and outline new empirical ways to study the mechanisms underlying anticipation and decision making in real-time dynamic interactions.
Brief bio:
Professor Rouwen Cañal Bruland is Professor for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and Visiting Professor of Human Movement Science in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health at Loughborough University, UK. Before joining FSU Jena in 2016, Rouwen served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Movement Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for almost nine years. He completed his PhD and his undergraduate studies at the University of Münster, Germany. Rouwen works at the intersection of human movement science, sport psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology to study interactions between action, perception and cognition. He regularly publishes his work in leading psychology, neuroscience, sport science as well as multidisciplinary journals. Currently, Rouwen serves as editorial board member for several journals including Psychology of Sport and Exercise (Associate Editor), Human Movement Science and Journal of Sports Sciences.