Results for: "Neuroscience"
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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drawing of a piano keyboard with the names of muscles on each key.

Muscle Key-Board

Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova 2022/11/23

It’s a misconception that the motor cortex controls muscles like a keyboard. But in Baseworks practice, we are trying to use it more like a keyboard, making motor learning easier.

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Drawing of a karate practitioner.

Quest For: The meaning of form

Patrick Oancia 2022/03/09

So we always try to clarify what the purpose of our form practice is in Baseworks. Let’s see how the continuity of form practice can lead to a better understanding of movement all around.

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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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