Symposium: Rebuilding Bridges: Bringing Sport Psychology and Motor Learning and Control Back Together

The purpose of this symposium is to elicit idea exchanges and discussions on bringing back together psycho-motor research that spans the areas of sport psychology, motor learning, and motor control. While historically these disciplines have shared common ground and were co-located in parallel within the human movement sciences, there seems to be a divide in recent years. Therefore, the aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers who have bridged (or attempted to traverse) these areas of study. The symposium will focus on the value of inter-disciplinary research and how cross-talk can enrich each discipline. It will also discuss challenges related to methods and design and further considerations for how constraints (related to experimental tasks, environmental conditions, and the recruitment of participants) might need to be modified when traversing disciplines. We will invite our discussant to pose questions and draw conclusions based on the panelists’ presentations and propose next steps.