The Motor Behavior Lab

The motor behavior laboratory is designed to be used as a teaching and research facility. Undergraduate and graduate students participate in discovery and replication laboratory sessions to learn how research in movement acquisition and re-acquisition is applicable to teaching, coaching, rehabilitation etc. The purpose of most laboratory sessions is to provide a bridge between research and professional practice. Reaction, response, and anticipation timers, stability platform, tachistoscope, and manual manipulation devices are examples of equipment available. The laboratory is also used to conduct original research by faculty and graduate students. Gender differences in anticipatory timing and parent and offspring differences in Fitts’ tapping task are examples of two recent experiments completed by graduate students.