Sport and Exercise Science

Facilities

Psychology

Teaching and research area

The psychology division has a specialist teaching and research area where non-practical research is conducted. There is also a separate interview room for research studies that houses a media suite. The media suite computer has specialist ADOBE Premier Pro software that is used for editing high-quality videos. In addition, the media suite contains software to analyse interview based data.

Specialist equipment

Other specialist equipment used for research and teaching purposes includes PLATO Liquid Crystal Spectacles that are designed to cut out vision of the right, left or both eyes together, reaction timers to see how quickly we respond to visual or auditory cues, and various targets to assess the accuracy of skill development or performance.

Mobile eye system

The sports psychology laboratory also houses an ASL Mobile eye system with supporting software. The Mobile eye system allows researchers to examine exactly where individuals visually attend to when they are performing a movement or making a decision.

Find out more about the Sports Psychology Research at University of Portsmouth.