Motor learning (conscious and non-conscious) in sport & other activities | Prof Rich Masters, HKU

Professor Rich Masters, Director of the Institute for Human Performance at the University of Hong Kong, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of human movement -- especially motor skill acquisition through implicit learning, delivered the UCD School of Psychology (University College Dublin, Ireland), Distinguished Scholar Public Lecture on 23 April 2014.

Professor Masters has published extensively in psychology, medicine, neurorehabilitation and sport science. A Universitas21 Fellowship holder, Prof Masters worked in the University of Birmingham and the University of York before joining the University of Hong Kong. In recent years, Professor Masters and his research team have investigated movement-related problems such as falling in the elderly and aspects of Parkinson's disease.

Established in 1854, University College Dublin (UCD) is Ireland's largest university. Perhaps the best known of all its graduates is the writer James Joyce, who completed his Bachelor of Arts at the university in 1902. Other graduates include the authors Maeve Binchy and Flann O'Brien, actors Gabriel Byrne and Brendan Gleeson, film directors Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, former Irish rugby captain Brian O'Driscoll, and the former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland captain Kevin Moran. Numerous Irish Presidents and Taoisigh (Prime Ministers) also studied at University College Dublin including: John Bruton (Prime Minister), John A Costello (Prime Minister), Dr Garret Fitzgerald (Prime Minister), and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (President).

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