Department of Sports Science
Research area VI - Motor Control and Training
New group member
15.10.2023
Tammy Lück joins the research group as a research assistant. Tammy will be responsible for the conduction of experiments in the lab, the programming of experiments in Matlab PsychToolbox, and support our upcoming VR projects.
New group member
01.05.2022
Marleen Kernebeck joins the research group as a research assistant. Marleen will be responsible for the conduction of experiments in the lab and for the programming of experiments in PsychoJS and Matlab.
New group member
01.06.2021
Zixin Shen joins the research group as a PhD student. In her PhD project, Zixin will investigate statistical learning in motor control.
New group member
01.04.2021
Tim Redepenning joins the research group as a PhD student. In his PhD project, Tim will investigate the neural correlates of the motor hysteresis effect. He will further be teaching in the scientific bachelor program 'Psychology and Movement' and the scientific master program 'Intelligence and Movement'.
New group member
01.01.2021
Carolin Wickemeyer joins the research group as a research assistant. Carolin will be responsible for the programming of online experiments in PsychoPy/PsychoJS during the lockdown and for the conduction of experiments in the lab after the end of the lockdown.
Publication in Scientific Reports
03.12.2020
An influence of unconscious social stimuli on our actions has been controversially discussed for a long time, especially when it comes to complex movements (e.g., with the whole body). The most frequent criticism of such studies is the poorly controllable environmental influence on action. In a recent study, scientists from the University of Bielefeld and colleagues from the Universities of Paderborn and Berlin succeeded in demonstrating an unconscious influence of social stimuli under highly controlled laboratory conditions, but nevertheless in the context of real-life stimuli and responses. By means of gaze feints in basketball, it was shown that a socially relevant but task irrelevant information (gaze direction) influences the complex response of an opponent (blocking movement) even if it is processed purely unconsciously. Socially significant and action relevant information can thus control our behavior in realistic situations without us being aware of it.
Original publication:
Schütz, C., Güldenpenning, I., Koester, D., & Schack, T. (2020). Social cues can impact complex behavior unconsciously. Scientific Reports, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77646-2