Event overview
As part of the Psychology Seminar Series, Dr Buckingham asks: who should we be observing in order to best learn new skills?
One of the main ways we can learn new skills is by observing other individuals perform them. But who should we be observing – the aspirational performance of expert models, or the error-filled performance of novice models?
In this presentation, I will present a series of studies where I try to answer this question across a range behavioural studies, from simple lab-based object lifting experiments to virtual-reality orthopaedic surgical training and state-of-the-art robotic-assisted surgery.
Bio:
Gavin Buckingham was awarded his PhD in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen (UK) in 2008, examining attention in the context of hand preferences. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he moved to Canada to take up a position as a postdoctoral fellow in the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University in Canada working with Prof. Mel Goodale. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter, where he leads the Object Interaction Lab (https://sites.google.com/site/obintlab). His work examines motor control, motor learning, and perception, particularly in the context of object interaction.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Feb 2020 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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