Title: Adapting to sensorimotor delay in the control of standing balance Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin Committee members: Dr. Mark Carpenter, Dr. Lyndia Wu Abstract: The ability to stand upright is a crucial motor skill for humans. The sensing, transmission, and integration of sensory signals as well as force generation for balance involve delays that change […]
Title: “Physiological Computations Underlying Our Internal Representation of Vestibular Self-motion” Thesis Supervisors: Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin & Dr. Robert Boushel Committee Member: Dr. Christopher Dakin Chair: Dr. Cheryl L. Wellington External Examiner: Dr. Raymond Reynolds University Examiners: Dr. Miriam Spering & James Enns Abstract: Humans rely on sensing for survival. The principles implemented by the brain […]
Title: “I Still Have That Athlete Soul”: Storying Identity and Pain in Retired Athletes Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Erica Bennett Committee members: Dr. Andrea Bundon, Dr. Guy Faulkner Defence Chair: Dr. Desmond McEwan Abstract: Sport culture narratives teach athletes that their identities should center around athletic performance and physical superiority, with pain as an accepted part […]
Diasporic Bodies: An exploration of body image and body belonging among first and second generation Chinese Canadian women This research seminar will unpack preliminary findings from a project exploring how body image interacts with diasporic identities and transnational belonging. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 first and second generation Chinese Canadian women to explore their […]
Please join us next week for a talk by Dr. Dunja Antunovic, a leading scholar on feminist sports media.This talk is open to all but I would specifically recommend it to graduate students and early career scholars as Dunja will also be speaking to her experiences of working in academia, developing a research agenda, the […]
Title: Assessing the contributions of visual and motor experience to action prediction skill in baseball Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Nicola Hodges Committee members: Dr. Romeo Chua, Dr. Sean Müller Defence Chair: Dr. Tania Lam Abstract: Both visual and motor experiences impact action prediction, yet through potentially different mechanisms. Having physical experience with an action is thought […]
Title: The Effect of Aerobic Fitness on Exercise-Induced Diaphragmatic Fatigue in Females Thesis Supervisor: Dr. William Sheel Committee members: Dr. Don McKenzie, Dr. Jeremy Road Defence Chair: Dr. Mike Koehle Abstract: The magnitude of exercise-induced diaphragmatic fatigue (EIDF) is similar in males irrespective of aerobic fitness. When compared to aerobically fit males, aerobically fit females […]
Title: The role of uncertainty in the vestibular control of balance during locomotion Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin Committee members: Dr. Romeo Chua, Dr. Calvin Kuo Defence Chair: Dr. Mark Carpenter Abstract: Uncertainty is always present in the sensory information that we receive, worsening confidence in our self-motion estimates. This includes information from the vestibular […]
Title: Representation of space and time for the perception and control of standing balance Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin Committee members: Dr. Patrick Forbes, Dr. Calvin Kuo Defence Chair: Romeo Chua Abstract: While balancing upright, dynamic changes in body spatial representation occur as time progresses. Although space and time are often considered independent processes, I […]
Title: COVID-19 Pandemic and Exercise for Healthcare Workers (COPE HCW) trial: Secondary analyses examining the effects of at-home exercise on healthcare workers’ multidimensional well-being Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Eli Puterman Committee members: Dr. Mark Beauchamp, Dr. Guy Faulkner Defence Chair: Dr. Nicola Hodges Abstract: Background. Current research on employee well-being largely entails focus on physical […]