Results for: "Movement Science"
A presenter in a black Baseworks T-shirt stands at the front of a studio with arms open, speaking to a group seated on the floor with their backs to the camera, a screen titled Perceptual Skills beside her. Title text reads Perceptual Skills in Movement Education, 2026: October 1-3, Ottawa, Canada, SCAPPS (The Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology).

Baseworks at SCAPPS 2026: Perceptual Skills in Movement Education

Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova 2026/09/15

Baseworks director of research Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova will present a poster at the 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) in Ottawa, October 1 to 3, 2026. The poster is titled “Perceptual Skills in Movement Education: Discrimination as a Prerequisite for Appraisal and Behavioural Change.” Baseworks founder Patrick

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Distributed Activation: the M1 on Fire

Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova 2022/10/19

This article is about a common misconception that the brain contains a “motor map” of our muscles in the same sense we usually think about maps (one-to-one representation). It further explains the term “distributed activation” in movement research and then compares it with the Baseworks Distributed Activation.

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The Mystery of Proprioceptive Awareness

Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova 2022/02/24

Most people have felt a localized sensation in an active muscle—something neutral, immediate, and not pain. The scientific literature has no name for it, and no established conceptual category for it either. This article explores why this perceptual phenomenon falls through the cracks of neuroscience, what its most plausible neural substrate is, and what becomes possible when it’s deliberately cultivated.

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