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Kudo Lab
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The lab explores the skillfulness of movement in athletes and musicians and the mechanisms by which they improve.
AboutAbout the lab
The Science of Skillful Movement
The Kudo Lab studies where skillfulness and proficiency in movement come from.
Top athletes, dancers, and musicians acquire extremely advanced skills through daily practice.
Using such expert performance as a clue, the lab investigates the differences between skilled performers and novices, as well as the path of improvement.
The lab aims to clarify the principles of learning and control of expert skills and to apply the findings to motor instruction and coaching.
Key terms
- motor control strategy
- The way the brain and body decide how to move the body. Even for the same result, the strategy differs from person to person.
- dynamical systems theory
- A theory that investigates systems that change over time by expressing them with equations (mathematical models).
- expert
- A person who has accumulated long practice and acquired a particular skill at a high level. In research, experts serve as the comparison group for novices.
NewsLab news
A paper by a doctoral student has been published in Journal of Neurophysiology
A paper co-authored with a lab graduate has been published in Cognitive Studies (a Japanese-language journal)
A paper by a doctoral student has been published in Scientific Reports
A paper co-authored with a lab graduate has been published in Experimental Brain Research
Joint research with a lab graduate has been published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
ResearchResearch themes
Using expert performance, as exemplified by athletes, dancers, and musicians, as a clue, the lab conducts research to answer questions about the skillfulness and proficiency of movement. Its goal is to clarify how human expert skills are learned and controlled.
*Illustrative imageHow Do Skilled Performers Differ?
The lab compares experts and novices across a variety of motor skills. Focusing on the motor control strategies behind movements, it has found that novices try to optimize within their own intrinsic constraints, while experts integrate multiple skills.
*Illustrative imageConditions for Becoming Skilled at Movement
Skills that can be used in diverse situations cannot be acquired through uniform, repetitive practice alone. Focusing on the characteristics of the body and the diversity of environments, the lab explores the learning conditions that enable people to behave adaptively in any environment.
*Illustrative imageWhy Slumps Happen
The lab regards setbacks, regressions, and sudden leaps that occur along the way as unavoidable events in the process of improvement. It pursues a clear understanding of them through both experiments and theory based on dynamical systems theory (mathematical models).
*Illustrative imageWhy People Fail to Perform at Their Best When It Counts
The lab investigates the relationship between performance and the physical and mental changes that occur under nervousness and pressure, and aims to develop ways to cope with them.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kudo Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKazutoshi KudoPublications ↗
- Project LecturerKohei Miyata
- Project LecturerYasutaka Oshio
- Assistant ProfessorKazushi Tsutsui
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Marker less tracking in a Sportscience” Thomas 89 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- How Do Skilled Performers Differ?: “En pointe ballet dancer closeup” Rufino Uribe / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Conditions for Becoming Skilled at Movement: “Juggling Balls (81706016)” Richard Leonard / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Why Slumps Happen: “DPLE” George Ioannidis / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Why People Fail to Perform at Their Best When It Counts: “Golf putting on green” Woodypino / CC0 (cropped)
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