@CEPET_MQ

Official account of the MQ Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise and Training (CEPET). We investigate how expert skills are acquired, maintained and deployed.

 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Joined September 2017
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Students beginning the new Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science (BESS) @Macquarie_Uni are starting their studies in a state-of-the-art teaching space in the Marquee at Wallumattagal Campus. mq.edu.au/thisweek/2023/05/1…
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Artificial intelligence and music researcher Dr Richard Savery from @Macquarie_Uni hopes his new drumming, rapping robot will reveal new insights about human-robot interactions. lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article…

Meet the band's new drummer ... Keirzo the robot

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The next @CEPET_MQ colloquium will be held 11am Thursday 15 March @Macquarie_Uni and online. All welcome! Prof @simon_penny from @UofCalifornia will present a talk entitled, 'Scaffolding skill: Know-how, epistemic action and cognitive ecologies. bit.ly/3wJ4G2E #skill
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Creative opportunity for Actors: Friday March 3 12- 5pm. Recording voices for @KarenPearlman's new feminist films screening in France & elsewhere from March 2023. Volunteer opportunity. French speakers ideal, all languages welcome. Pls email cv/availability: [email protected]
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Thanks to @davidwhitephd from @UNSW for visiting MARCS and presenting our monthly seminar. It was a treat to hear about latest research on face recognition & complexities of translating from the lab to the wild #facerecognition #faceprocessing #ecologicalvalidity @westernsydneyu
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Last week to watch @karen_pearlman's multi-award-winning I WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN on @SBSOnDemand: sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/i-… #mediacommsmq #physicaltv #karenpearlman
Liliya May as Lilya Brik in Karen Pearlman's multi-award-winning I WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN on @SBSOnDemand. A Physical TV Company production created at Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts. Y3A Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature.

ALT Liliya May as Lilya Brik in Karen Pearlman's multi-award-winning I WANT TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT WOMEN on @SBSOnDemand. A Physical TV Company production created at Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts. Y3A Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature.

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While in the US, @tladoyle & @JodieAWills were fortunate to visit, the Kentucky Fire Department Training Facility with Dr Mark Abel from Kentucky University. @universityofky #Science #FirstResponders #firefighter #research #AcademicTwitter #performance #injury #collaboration – at Paris, KY
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🎉Congratulations to the @Macquarie_Uni researchers awarded $6.7m in @nhmrc Ideas Grants to support their pioneering work in improving outcomes for patients with brain tumours, glaucoma, colorectal cancer, alcohol addiction & neurodegenerative disease. 🔗 macq.it/3hsRVWk
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Congrats to Prof Mark Wiggins & Dr Ben Morrison (& @PsyMQ Org Psych alumni Jaime Auton & Daniel Sturman) for securing ARC funding for research on 'Situational Assessment as a Marker of Cognitive Skill Decay'. We look forward to hearing about the outcomes! bit.ly/3iEtNjL
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Out now! 'Cognitive control, intentions, and problem solving in skill learning' with @waynedc, as part of the Minds in Skilled Performance special issue. 🧐🥳 link.springer.com/article/10…

Cognitive control, intentions, and problem solving in skill learning

Synthese - We investigate flexibility and problem solving in skilled action. We conducted a field study of mountain bike riding that required a learner rider to cope with major changes in technique...

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New opinion paper where we try to connect 2 different worlds. We apply the concept of explicit strategy from motor learning to make sense of a common practice in minimally invasive surgery. @CEPET_MQ @PsyMQ @mqcogbrain @Macquarie_Uni journals.lww.com/annalsofsur…

Put Your Finger on it: The role of Explicit... : Annals of Surgery

Abstract was not provided for this article.

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We recently published a paper in @cogsci_soc highlighting our latest research exploring team coordination using a collaborative search task we developed, stylized as a multiplayer video game @PsyMQ @CEPET_MQ bit.ly/3G6epGz

Assessing Team Effectiveness by How Players Structure Their Search in a First‐Person Multiplayer...

People working as a team can achieve more than when working alone due to a team's ability to parallelize the completion of tasks. In collaborative search tasks, this necessitates the formation of...

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I'll be resharing this ad a few times, as the project is a bit of a dream for me. We are looking for a postdoc at @socsci_mq in psych anthro or cog sci to work with us on the evolutionary implications of conceptualisation. Details in ad! mq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-…
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Are you attending the @the_ASCA conference this week? Our very own @JodieAWills will be presenting this Friday.👇 ✍️'​Translating the sport science framework into occupational & tactical environments'. Can't wait. See you there! #ASCAConference #fusionsport #smatabase #GymAware – at Gold Coast, Queensland
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Are you looking to build employee resilience? A/Prof @monique_crane from @Macquarie_Uni and @PsyMQ has written a freely available book chapter in @OUPAcademic: 'The Multisystem Approach to Resilience in the Context of Organizations'.  academic.oup.com/book/41117/… #resilience
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Women coaches want more research into why they are still a rarity in men's sport abc.net.au/news/2022-10-31/m…

Women coaches want more research into why they are still a rarity in men's sport

Julianne Sitch is one of just two women coaching men's college teams in the US. She wants more research into why that's the case.

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The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback theconversation.com/the-dang… via @ConversationEDU

The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback

Would an advanced AI try to take over the world? If it uses a common approach called ‘reinforcement learning’, the answer is almost certainly yes.

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The more support team members you put around an athlete, the more noise it might create. For every person you add, lines of communication increase, increasing the chances of: ⬆️ Confusion ⬆️ Conflicting messages ⬆️ Distraction from performance
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Excited this is finally out. Science is built on measurement, and new measurement methods require validation. Here we validate DeepLabCut, which has taken neuroscience by storm. @DeepLabCut @TrackingActions @TrackingPlumes @mqcogbrain @PsyMQ journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Validation of deep learning-based markerless 3D pose estimation

Deep learning-based approaches to markerless 3D pose estimation are being adopted by researchers in psychology and neuroscience at an unprecedented rate. Yet many of these tools remain unvalidated....

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Congrats to Prof Mark Wiggins from @PsyMQ on the new book 'Introduction to Human Factors for Organisational Psychologists'. It introduces industrial/organisational psychologists to the tools necessary for applying human factors strategies & techniques. routledge.com/Introduction-t…

Introduction to Human Factors for Organisational Psychologists

This text introduces industrial and organisational psychologists to the discipline of human factors. It also provides a range of tools necessary for the application of human factors strategies and...

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