Liis Uiga
@LiisUiga
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Joined December 2013
🚨 NEW PAPER! 🚨 Looking into the relationship between motor reinvestment and prosthetic hand use and experience https://t.co/w0iOS9Umq4 Big thanks to @Greg___Wood @djwright561 @LiisUiga Rich Masters @JohnnyParr
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Prosthetic hand devices are frequently abandoned as they are difficult to use and impose high mental workload upon users. However, researchers are yet to establish whether personality factors might...
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Fantastic work @JACKBRIMMELL @Greg___Wood The structure of executive functions in athletes: A latent variable approach - ScienceDirect
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Multiple Lecturer (=Assistant Prof) vacancies in Applied AI at @ManMetUni @MMUEngage - looking for new colleagues with expertise in applying AI/ML to an area aligned with Faculty research themes (including health/sport/active ageing!) https://t.co/sH7DPRHNHg
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A great team effort from @Greg___Wood @djwright561 @LiisUiga @JohnnyParr and amazing to collaborate with Rich Masters on this topic!
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⬇️Fully-funded PhD available at @latrobe looking at the professionalisation of women’s football in Australia ⚽️🧍♀️ Closing date: 21/10/24 Informal Q’s: Prof MacMahon c.macmahon@latrobe.edu.au More info & how to apply:
latrobe.edu.au
La Trobe Industry Research Scholarship (LTIRS) - The Development and Professionalisation of Women's Football in Australia stipend award tuition fee AFL NRL footy women AFLW Professional Footballers...
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Safe(r) landing by older people: A matter of complexity https://t.co/CSGZZOHqjm
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Abstract. Maintaining balance is a complex motor problem that requires coordinated contributions from multiple biological systems. Aging inevitably lessens
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"Story analogies are allegorical and may not be superior to explicit instructions when it comes to helping older adults to learn, and retain, complex sequences of movements" @tinaduijn Rich Masters https://t.co/9s8BgnHtka
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🚨🗒️Help needed 🗒️🚨 Are you the parent of a typically developing child aged between 5 and 17? If so, I would be extremely grateful if you could complete this short survey to tell us how often they do or do not fall over:
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We're running a survey to understand how falls, or near falls, affect adults and children with dyspraxia. Want to take part? If you're an adult with dyspraxia: https://t.co/wpERrXQ2ma If you're the parent of a child with dyspraxia: https://t.co/bp9RmkXxn5 Full details below👇
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Funded PhD focusing on expertise in VAR decision making in football referees. Please RT https://t.co/7pbWTre01w
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PhD Project - Thinking clearly under pressure: Understanding and enhancing decision making in football video assistant referees at Manchester Metropolitan University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Self funded PhD looking at the effects of football heading on the female brain. Great supervisory team of @JohnnyParr @MagneticDr_K
@LiisUiga and myself.
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PhD Project - Neuroimaging Insights into the Immediate Effect of Football Heading on Female Brain Function and Long-Term Dementia Risk at Manchester Metropolitan University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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🚨 Fully-funded 4-year PhD Studentship!! 🚨 Come and study protein metabolism in individuals with Becker Muscular Dystrophy using non-invasive methods. Supervised by myself, @Doc_Morse, @kbowdendavies, @_PaulMorgan & @christian_goede & funded by @MDUK_News
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Find out what doctoral research scholarships are available at Manchester Met and sign up for vacancy alerts.
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New paper led by Robyn Sullivan - examining the effects of the presence of an audience on conscious motor processing and performance in an adapted “stop-and-go” penalty shooting task. Great work @robyn_sullivan1 @NieuwenhuysArne
https://t.co/DQcPxWUAk4
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The Theory of Reinvestment predicts that perceived pressure to perform well can negatively impact the perceptual-motor skills of experts, by promoting conscious reinvestment of explicit knowledge a...
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We have 2 PhD studentships to work on an ERC funded project led by @SallieLamb18 We will simulate situations where older adults often fall @v_simulators 1 PhD will focus on biomechanics & the other on the influence of sensory integration & cognition on balance/gait. DL=2nd April
#PhD opportunity to join a world-leading falls prevention research team on prestigious STEPPING OUT project led by @SallieLamb18 & work with experimental psychologists, biomechanists, physiotherapists and mathematicians at #ExeterBRC >Details & apply: https://t.co/mQgDSm0UtG
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Three years in the making! Our new paper looking at size perception following a concussion @LiisUiga
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".... during early stages of recovery, people with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are more likely to consciously control their movements." Nicely done @AmanpreetSidhuu
https://t.co/6qzkEsec09
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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) occurs from biomechanical forces on the brain, leading to pathophysiological changes that cause cognitive, perceptual, and/or motor impairments. Following mTBI, i...
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PhD Scholarship at QUT in Skill Acquisition https://t.co/MkPowzKuws
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Please share this opportunity for 2 PhD studentships in Psychology and Human Factors. Still 2 weeks until the deadline...
2 PhD studentships focused on training and learning. Please share with any colleagues or students who have (or are close to completing) an MSc in Psychology, Human Factors, or Data science.
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Come and work with me, @EmmaHTole and @GladysOP1 investigating how we could implement next generation EMG in women's football! you can apply for the role here and DM me any questions -
manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk
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Our @basesuk expert statement on the relationship between executive functions and sport and exercise https://t.co/BH4G9dt6Gw
@LiisUiga @JACKBRIMMELL
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