Motor Learning and Control Symposium
Theme: Implicit and Explicit Control of Perceptual and Motor Behavior
This symposium focuses on the influence of implicit and explicit processes of motor control on the
acquisition and learning of perceptual and motor skills.
Chairperson
Hiroshi Sekiya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Hiroshima University
Japan
Hiroshi Sekiya is an associate professor of Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan. He received
his Ph. D. from Louisiana State University, U.S.A. on the topic of Motor Control and Learning. He is an executive board member of
Japanese Sport Psychology Association. He is also an executive board member of ACESS: Asian Council of Exercise and Sports
Science. His research interests are the influence of acute psychological stress on human movements and implicit/explicit learning of
perceptual-motor skills. He has provided psychological skills training programs to professional and amateur athletes of a variety of
sports, such as soccer and tennis.
Presenters
Function of “sleep” for perceptual motor learning
Masako Tamaki, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
USA
Effects of Non-Conscious Perception on Visual/Somatosensory Reaction Times Under a
Backward Masking Paradigm
Kuniyasu Imanaka, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Health Promotion Science
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Japan
The use of guided-discovery and discovery learning instructional techniques in developing
anticipation skill in sport
A. Mark Williams, Ph.D.
Professor, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
UK
Locomotion through apertures when wider space is necessary: Perception-action dynamics
of attachments to the body
Takahiro Higuchi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion Science
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Japan