Michael Carter

Michael Carter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University, within the Faculty of Science. His research focuses on motor learning, sensorimotor neuroscience, and metascience, particularly examining how decision-making, practice factors, and aging influence skilled action control. He leads the Action, Cognition, and Metascience Lab, which conducts interdisciplinary studies on motor skill acquisition and critiques research practices in kinesiology.

Education: PhD in Human Kinetics (University of Ottawa, 2016), MSc and BPhEd from Brock University (2011 and 2008), with a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen's University (2016–2017).

Teaching: Teaches courses such as Motor Control and Learning (KINESIOL 1E03), Statistical Methods in Kinesiology (KINESIOL 701), and Neurorehabilitation and Robotics (KINESIOL 4TT3). Instructs advanced topics including Scientific Computing for Sensorimotor Neuroscience (KINESIOL 736) and Directed Readings.

Research Interests: Investigates how autonomy, feedback schedules, and metascience address biases in motor learning research. Studies include effects of self-controlled practice, external focus of attention, and reproducibility in motor behavior experiments.

Awards: No specific awards listed, though his work has been widely cited (e.g., over 61 readers on Mendeley for key papers).

Labs/Teams: Leads the Action, Cognition, and Metascience Lab, collaborating on projects like metascience critiques and neural mechanisms of motor control in healthy and clinical populations.