Updated on 29 Apr. 2008

 

 

 


Invited Speakers and Invited Symposiums Chairs

Reinoud Bootsma (University of the Mediterranean, France)

“Perception-action coupling in complex skills”

 

URL: www.ism.univmed.fr

 

Reinoud J. Bootsma is a full professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of the University of the Mediterranean in Marseilles, France. After obtaining a PhD in Human Movement Science from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the development of his research programme was further supported by a fellowship awarded by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. At the end of a year of collaboration with Prof. R.G. Marteniuk at the University of Waterloo in Canada, he moved to Marseilles, where he has since participated in developing the academic curriculum and structuring the research in human movement science at the local, regional and national levels. He is currently the director of the Graduate School of Human Movement Sciences, an institute regrouping doctoral students from five major universities of South-Eastern France. At the interface of experimental psychology and behavioural neuroscience, his research focuses on the informational organization of action with applications in a wide variety of perceptuo-motor tasks such as standing, locomoting, driving, aiming, grasping, catching and hitting.

 

He has published over 100 articles in international journals and books in the field of behavioural science, addressing theoretical and applied issues in the domains of health, work and sports.



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