Prof. Dr. Matthias Weigelt

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Lebenslauf (kurz): Matthias Weigelt studierte Sport, Sozialkunde und Psychologie an den Universitäten in Jena, Charlottesville (USA) und Reading (England). Das Promotionsstudium schloss er in den Fächern Psychologie, Neuropsychologie und Sportwissenschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ab und verfasste seine Dissertation am Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften im Jahr 2004. Nach weiteren Stationen als Wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Städtischen Klinikum München-Bogenhausen und der Universität Bielefeld wurde er im Januar 2010 an die Universität des Saarlandes und im Oktober 2011 an die Universität Paderborn berufen, wo er heute die Professur für Psychologie und Bewegung innehat. Matthias Weigelt ist derzeit Vizepräsident für Forschung und Internationales der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sportpsychologie (asp) und im Herausgeberkollegium des German Journals of Exercise and Sport Research.
Short CV: Matthias Weigelt studied Sport Science, Social Sciences, and Psychology at the universities in Jena, Charlotteville (USA), and Reading (UK). He completed his doctoral program in psychology, neuropsychology, and sport science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and completed his PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Neurosciences in 2004. After a postdoc position at the City Hospital in Munich-Bogenhausen and at the University of Bielefeld, he was called to the Saarland University and became a professor for sport psychology and movement science in January 2010. In October 2011, Matthias Weigelt moved to the University of Paderborn, where he is now the head of the psychology and movement science research group. His research focuses similarly on basic and applied topics of human performance in daily activities and sports. Currently, Matthias Weigelt is the Vice President for Research and International Affairs of the German Society of Sport Psychology and one of the editors of the German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research.

Miscellaneous
Since 10/2016	Professor of Psychology and Movement Science Head of the Sport Psychology and Movement Science Research Group, Department of Sport & Health Sciences, University of Paderborn
10/2011 - 10/2016	Professor of Sport Psychology Head of the Sport Psychology Research Group, Department of Sport & Health Sciences, University of Paderborn
01/2010 - 10/2011	Professor of Sport Sciences Head of the Sport Psychology Research Group, Institute of Sport Science, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken
10/2007 - 12/2009	Assistent Professorship (non-permanent) Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Bielefeld University, (Prof. Dr. Thomas Schack)
10/2009 - 10/2009	Assistent Professor of Sport Psychology and Motor Learning Call to the Institute of Sport Sciences, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen (call declined)
05/2006 - 10/2007	Research Scientist (non-permanent) Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Bielefeld University, (Prof. Dr. Thomas Schack)
01/2006 - 03/2006	Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, City Hospital Munich-Bogenhausen (Prof. Dr. Georg Goldenberg)
07/2004 - 12/2005	Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Neurosciences, Munich (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz)
10/2001 - 07/2004	Research Scientist (PhD student) Department of Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Neurosciences, Munich (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz)
10/2001 - 07/2004	PhD Programm Psychology (major), Neuropsychology (minor), Sport Sciences (minor) Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
01/2001 - 08/2001	Postgraduate Student Department of Psychology, University of Reading, England (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wulf)
10/1999 - 05/2001	Graduate Student Master of Education (M.Ed.) for Health and Physical Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA (Prof. Dr. Linda K. Bunker)
10/1996 - 12/2000	Teachers Education Program for Physical Education and Social Sciences, University of Jena, Germany

Since 10/2016	Professor of Psychology and Movement Science Head of the Sport Psychology and Movement Science Research Group, Department of Sport & Health Sciences, University of Paderborn
10/2011 - 10/2016	Professor of Sport Psychology Head of the Sport Psychology Research Group, Department of Sport & Health Sciences, University of Paderborn
01/2010 - 10/2011	Professor of Sport Sciences Head of the Sport Psychology Research Group, Institute of Sport Science, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken
10/2007 - 12/2009	Assistent Professorship (non-permanent) Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Bielefeld University, (Prof. Dr. Thomas Schack)
10/2009 - 10/2009	Assistent Professor of Sport Psychology and Motor Learning Call to the Institute of Sport Sciences, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen (call declined)
05/2006 - 10/2007	Research Scientist (non-permanent) Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Bielefeld University, (Prof. Dr. Thomas Schack)
01/2006 - 03/2006	Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, City Hospital Munich-Bogenhausen (Prof. Dr. Georg Goldenberg)
07/2004 - 12/2005	Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Neurosciences, Munich (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz)
10/2001 - 07/2004	Research Scientist (PhD student) Department of Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Neurosciences, Munich (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz)
10/2001 - 07/2004	PhD Programm Psychology (major), Neuropsychology (minor), Sport Sciences (minor) Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
01/2001 - 08/2001	Postgraduate Student Department of Psychology, University of Reading, England (Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wulf)
10/1999 - 05/2001	Graduate Student Master of Education (M.Ed.) for Health and Physical Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA (Prof. Dr. Linda K. Bunker)
10/1996 - 12/2000	Teachers Education Program for Physical Education and Social Sciences, University of Jena, Germany

(A) Journal Papers (peer-reviewed)

Rahe, M., Weigelt, M., & Jansen, P. (in press). Mental rotation with colored cube figures. Consciousness and Cognition.

Dahm, S.F., Weigelt, M., & Rieger, M. (in press). Sequence representations after action-imagery practice of one-finger movements are effector-independent. Psychological Research.

Polzien, A., Güldenpenning, I., & Weigelt, M. (in press). Repeating head fakes in basketball: Temporal aspects affect the congruency sequence effect and the size of the head-fake effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Krause, D. & Weigelt, M. (in press). Mental rotation of tactic board instructions in basketball: Domain-specific expertise improves on-court performance. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.

Güldenpenning, I., Kunde, W., & Weigelt, M. (2022). Head-fake perception in basketball: The relative contributions of expertise, visual or motor training, and test repetition. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 20(1), 202-222.

Friehs, M.A., Whelan, E., Güldenpenning, I., Krause, D., & Weigelt, M. (2022). Stimulating performance: A scoping review on transcranial electrical stimulation effects on Olympic sports. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 59, 102130

Margraf, L., Krause, D., & Weigelt, M. (2022a). Valence-dependent neural correlates of augmented feedback processing in extensive motor sequence learning – Part I: Practice-related changes of feedback processing. Neuroscience, 486, 4-19.

Margraf, L., Krause, D., & Weigelt, M. (2022b). Valence-dependent neural correlates of augmented feedback processing in extensive motor learning – Part II: Predictive value of event-related potentials for behavioral adaptation and learning. Neuroscience, 486, 20-36.

Budde, K., Jöllenbeck, T., Barela, J.A., Figueiredo, G.A., & Weigelt, M. (2021). Mental body rotation with egocentric and object-based transformations in different postures: standing vs. balancing. Brazilian Journal of Motor Behavior, 15(3), 180-194.

Polzien, A., Güldenpenning, I., & Weigelt, M. (2021). A question of (perfect) timing: A preceding head turn increases the head-fake effect in basketball. PLoS ONE, 16(5): e0251117.

Krause, D., Richert, B., & Weigelt, M. (2021). Neurophysiology of embodied mental rotation - Event-related potentials in a mental rotation task with human bodies as compared to alphanumeric stimuli. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54, 5384–5403.

Weigelt, M. & Memmert, D. (2021). The mental rotation ability of expert basketball players: Identifying on-court plays. Research Quarterly for Sport and Exercise, 92(1), 137-145.

Wunderlich, F., Weigelt, M., Rein, R., Memmert, D. (2021). How does spectator presence affect football? Home advantage remains in European topclass football matches played without spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE, 16, e0248590.

Güldenpenning, I., Weigelt, M., Memmert, D., & Klatt, S. (2020). Processing deceptive information in sports: The size of the head-fake effect in basketball depends on the attentional capability of the observer. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 51, 101764.

Polzien, A., Güldenpenning, I., & Weigelt, M. (2020). Examining the perceptual-cognitive mechanism of deceptive actions in sports: Different processes contribute to the head-fake effect in basketball. Experimental Psychology, 67(6), 349-363.

Krause, D. & Weigelt, M. (2020). Mental rotation and performance in basketball: Effects of self-controlled and externally-controlled time constraints on the processing and execution of tactic board instructions with varied orientations. German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 50(3), 354-365.

Weigelt, M., Güldenpenning, I., Steggemann-Weinrich, Y. (2020). The head-fake effect in basketball is based on the processing of head orientation, but not on gaze direction. Psychology, 11, 1493-1510.

Budde, K., Barela, J.A., Figueiredo, G.A., & Weigelt, M. (2020). Mental body rotation with egocentric and object-based transformations in different postures: sitting vs. standing. Brazilian Journal of Motor Behavior,14(2), 73-84.

Güldenpenning, I., Kunde, W., & Weigelt, M. (2020). Cognitive load reduces interference by head fakes in basketball. Acta Psychologica, 203, Article 103013.

Memmert, D, Noël, B., Machlitt, D., van der Kamp, J., & Weigelt, M. (2020). The role of different directions of attention on the extent of implicit perception in soccer penalty kicking. Human Movement Science, 70, Article 102586.

Güldenpenning, I., Weigelt, M., & Kunde, W. (2020). Processing head fakes in basketball: Are there ironic effects of instructions on the head-fake effect in basketball? Human Movement Science, 67, Article 102499.

Friehs, M.A., Güldenpenning, I., Frings, C., & Weigelt, M. (2020). Electrify your game! Anodal tDCS increases the resistance to head fakes in basketball. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 4, 62-70.

Otto A.-K., Pietschmann J., Appelles L.-M. … Weigelt, M. et al. (2020). Physical activity and health promotion for nursing staff in elderly care: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10:e038202.

Güldenpenning, I., Schütz, C., Weigelt, M., & Kunde, W (2020). Is the head-fake effect in basketball robust against practice? Analyses of trial-by-trial adaptations, frequency distributions, and mixture effects to evaluate effects of practice. Psychological Research, 84, 823–833.

Kunde, W., Foerster, A., Weigelt, M., & Dignath, D. (2019). On the ball: Short-term consequences of movement fakes. Acta Psychologica 198, 102872.

Cordes, T., Bischoff L. L., Schoene, D., Schott, N., Voelcker-Rehage, C. … Weigelt, M., et al. (2019). A multicomponent exercise intervention to improve physical functioning, cognition and psychosocial well-being in elderly nursing home residents: a study protocol of a randomized controlled trial in the PROCARE (prevention and occupational health in long-term care) project. BMC Geriatrics, 19(1), Article number 369.

Polzien, A., Güldenpenning, I., & Weigelt, M. (2019). Effector-specific priming effects during action observation in combat sports. German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 49(4), 424-434.

Jara, D., Ortega, E., Gómez-Ruano, M.-Á., Weigelt, M., Nikolic, B., Sainz de Baranda, P. (2019). Physical and tactical demands of the goalkeeper in football in different small-sided games. Sensors, 19, Article 3605.

Güldenpenning, I., Alhaj Ahmad Alaboud, M., Kunde, W., & Weigelt, M. (2018). The impact of global and local context information on the processing of deceptive actions in game sports: Both higher head-fake frequencies and head-fake repetitions reduce the size of the head-fake effect in basketball. German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, 48(3), 366-375.

Seegelke, C. & Weigelt, M. (2018). Anticipating different grips reduces bimanual end-state comfort: A tradeoff between goal-related and means-related planning processes. PLoS ONE 13 (1): e0190586.

Weigelt, M. & Berwinkel, A. (2017). Sport and exercise therapy for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD): Five guiding principles. Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry, 1(1), 1-3.

Güldenpenning, I., Kunde, W., & Weigelt, M. (2017). How to trick your opponent: A review article on deceptive actions in interactive sports. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 917.

Schuetz, C., Weigelt, M., Schack, T. (2017). Motor hysteresis in a sequential grasping and pointing task is absent in task-critical joints. Experimental Brain Research, 235(3), 703-712.

Weigelt, M., Güldenpenning, I., Steggemann-Weinrich, Y., Alhaj Ahmad Alaboud, M., & Kunde, W. (2017). Control over the processing of the opponent’s gaze direction in basketball experts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24(3), 828-834.

Wunsch, K., Weigelt, M., & Stöckel, T. (2017). Anticipatory motor planning in older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science, 72(3), 373-382.

Schuetz, C., Weigelt, M., Schack, T. (2016). Cognitive costs of motor planning do not differ between pointing and grasping in a sequential task. Experimental Brain Research, 234(7), 2035-2043.

Wunsch, K., Henning, A., Pfister, R., Aschersleben, G. & Weigelt, M. (2016). No interrelation of motor planning and executive functions across young ages. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1031.

Wunsch, K. & Weigelt, M. (2016). A three-stage model for the acquisition of anticipatory planning skills for grip selection during object manipulation in young children. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 958.

Furley, P., Memmert, D., & Weigelt, M. (2016). „How much is that player in the window? The one with the early birthday?” Relative age influences the value of the best soccer players, but not the best businesspeople. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 84.

Seegelke, C., Hughes, C.M.L., Wunsch, K., van der Wel, & Weigelt, M. (2015). Frames of reference in action plan recall: influence of hand and handedness. Experimental Brain Research, 233, 2801-2812.

Noel, B., van der Kamp, J., Weigelt, M., & Memmert, D. (2015). Asymmetries in spatial perception are more prevalent under explicit than implicit attention. Consciousness & Cognition, 34, 10-15.

Schul, K., Memmert, D., Weigelt, M., & Jansen, P., (2014). From the wrong point of view! Athletes’ recognition and recall of playing patterns suffers from the misalignment of tactic boards during timeouts in professional basketball. Perception, 43, 811-817.

Wunsch, K., Weiss, D., Schack, T., & Weigelt, M. (2014). Second-order motor planning in children: Insights from a cup-manipulation-task. Psychological Research, 79(4), 669-677.

Lex, H., Weigelt, M., Knobloch, A., & Schack, T. (2014). The functional role of cognitive frameworks on visuomotor adaptation performance. Experimental Brain Research, 46(6), 389-396.

Tirp, J., Baker, J., Weigelt, M., & Schorer, J. 2014). Combat stance in judo - Laterality differences between and within competition levels. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 14(1), 217-224.

Barela, J.A., Weigelt, M., Polastri, P.F., Godoi, D., Aguiar, S.A., & Jeka, J.J. (2014). Explicit and implicit knowledge of environment states induce adaptation in postural control. Neuroscience Letters, 566, 6-10.

Wunsch, K., Henning, A., Aschersleben, G., & Weigelt, M. (2013). A systematic review of the development of the end-state comfort effect in children. Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 1(3), 59-76.

Bläsing, B., Brugger, P., Weigelt, M., & Schack, T. (2013). The role of the thumb in the mental rotation of hands. Neuroscience Letters, 534(1), 139-144.

Rosenbaum, D.A., Chapman, K.M., Weigelt, M., Weiss, D.J., & van der Wel, R. (2012). Cognition, action, and object manipulation. Psychological Bulletin, 138(5), 924-946.

Weigelt, M., Memmert, D., & Schack, T. (2012). Kick it like Ballack: The effects of goalkeeping gestures on goal-side selection in experienced soccer players and soccer novices. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 942-956.

Stöckel, T. & Weigelt, M. (2012). Brain lateralisation and motor learning: Selective effects of dominant and non-dominant hand practice on the early acquisition of throwing skills.Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 17(1), 18-37.

Lex, H., Weigelt, M., Knoblauch, A., & Schack, T. (2012). Cognitive frames of visuo-motor adaptation. Experimental Brain Research, 223(4), 457-467.

Weigelt, M. & Memmert, D. (2012). Goal-side selection in soccer penalty kicking when viewing natural scenes. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, Article 312.

Knudsen, B., Henning, A., Wunsch, K., Weigelt, M., & Aschersleben, G. (2012). The end-state comfort effect in 3- to 8-year-old children in two object manipulation tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, Article 445.

Stöckel, T. & Weigelt, M. (2012). Plasticity of human handedness: Decreased on-hand bias and inter-manual performance asymmetry in expert basketball players. Journal of Sport Science, 30, 1037-1045.

Spiegel, M.A., Koester, D., Weigelt, M., & Schack, T. (2012). The costs of changing an intended action: Movement planning, but not execution, interferes with verbal working memory. Neuroscience Letters, 509, 82-86.

Güldenpenning, I., Kunde, W., Weigelt, M., & Schack, T. (2012). Motor expertise modulates the unconscious processing of body postures. Experimental Psychology 59(5), 286-94.

Schuetz, C., Weigelt, M., Odekerken, D., Klein-Soetebier, T., & Schack, T. (2011). Motor control strategies in a continuous task space. Motor Control 15(3), 321-341.

Güldenpenning, I., Köster, D., Kunde, W., Weigelt, M., & Schack, T. (2011). Priming and activation of future states in complex motor skills. Experimental Brain Research, 13(4), 383-391.

Kunde, W., Skirde, S., Weigelt, M. (2011). Trust my face: Cognitive factors of head fakes in sports. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 17(2), 110-127.

Stöckel, T., Weigelt, M., & Krug (2011). Acquisition of a complex basketball dribbling task in school children as a function of bilateral practice order. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 82(2), 188-197.

Steggemann, Y., Engbert, K., & Weigelt, M. (2011). Selective effects of motor expertise in mental body rotation tasks: Comparing object-based and perspective transformations. Brain and Cognition, 76(1), 97-105.

Weigelt, M., Ahlmeyer, T., Lex, H., & Schack, T. (2011). The cognitive representation of a throwing technique in judo experts –Technological ways for individual skill diagnostics in high performance sports. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 12, 231-235.

Senff, O. & Weigelt, M. (2011). Sequential effects after practice with the dominant and non-dominant hand on the acquisition of a sliding task in school children. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 16(2), 227-239.

Weigelt, M. & Schack, T. (2010). The development of end-state comfort planning in pre-school children. Experimental Psychology. 57(6), 476-482.

Bach, P., Griffith, D., Weigelt, M., & Tipper, S.P. (2010). Gesturing meaning: non-action words activate the motor system. Frontiers in Neurosciences, 4, Article 214.

Janssen, L., Crajé, C., Weigelt, M., & Steenbergen, B. (2010). Motor planning in bimanual object manipulation: Two plans for two hands? Motor Control, 14, 240-254.

Janczyk, M., Skirde, S., Weigelt, M., & Kunde, W. (2009). Visual and tactile action effects determine bimanual coordination performance. Human Movement Science, 28, 437-449.

Weigelt, M., Rosenbaum, D.A., Hülshorst, S., & Schack, T. (2009). Moving and memorizing: Motor planning modulates the recency effect in serial and free recall. Acta Psychologica, 132, 68-79.

Kunde, W., Krauss, H. & Weigelt, M. (2009). Goal congruency without stimulus congruency in bimanual coordination. Psychological Research, 73, 34-42.

Wenderoth, N. & Weigelt, M. (2009). Visual cues influence motor coordination: Behavioral results and potential neural mechanisms mediating perception-action coupling. Progress in Brain Research, 174, 179-188.

Zentgraf, K., Weigelt, M., et al. (2009). How are actions physically implemented? Progress in Brain Research, 174, 303-318.

Weigelt, M. (2007). Re-examining structural constraints on the initiation of bimanual movements: The role of starting locations, movement amplitude, and target locations. Human Movement Science, 26, 212-225.

Weigelt, M., Rieger, M., Mechsner, F., & Prinz, W. (2007). Target-related coupling in bimanual reaching movements. Psychological Research, 71, 438-447.

Weigelt, M., Cohen, R., & Rosenbaum, D.A. (2007). Returning home: locations rather than postures are recalled in human object manipulation. Experimental Brain Research, 179, 191-198.

Albert, N., Weigelt, M., Hazeltine, E., & Ivry, R. (2007). Target selection during bimanual reaching to spatial cues is unaffected by the perceptual similarity of the targets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 1107-16.

Weigelt, M., Schack, T., & Kunde, W. (2007). Attentional focus effects highlight the role of mental representations in motor control. E-Journal Bewegung und Training, 1, 51-52.

Kerzel, D., Weigelt, M., & Bosbach, S. (2006). Processing of incongruent biological motion: all-or-nothing or Step-by-step? Acta Psychologica, 122(3), 267-279.

Weigelt, M., Kunde, W., & Prinz, W. (2006). End-state comfort in bimanual object manipulation. Experimental Psychology, 53(2), 143-148.

Kunde, W. & Weigelt, M. (2005). Goal-congruency in bimanual object manipulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 31(1), 145-156.

Wulf, G., Weigelt, M., Poulter, D., & McNevin, N.H. (2003). Attentional focus on supra-postural tasks affects balance learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A, 56(7), 1191-1211.