Seminar Series – Anticipation in sports: Integrating contextual and multisensory information – Dr. Rouwen Cañal Bruland

Dr. Rouwen Cañal Bruland will join us for our seminar series on Thursday, June 15 from 12:30 – 1:30pm.

Topic: Anticipation in sports: Integrating contextual and multisensory information

Since its infancy in the early 1980s research on anticipation in sports has witnessed a steep incline in both research interest and output. Given the increasing importance of research on anticipation in the field of sport psychology and skill acquisition, the aim of my talk is twofold: First, I will very briefly synthesize the achievements and contributions of research on anticipation in sports over the last 40 years (see Loffing & Cañal-Bruland, 2017). Second, and more importantly, I aim to outline open research questions that we and others have recently started to address and that in my opinion require and deserve systematic examination. In this context, I will present a number of recent studies from our lab focussing on the use and integration of i) contextual information and ii) multisensory information in anticipation.

Dr. 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, where he also chairs the Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport. 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, 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, Human Movement Science and Journal of Sports Sciences.