Nils Böer, M.Sc.
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Nach Absprache
For me, the best part of science is getting to learn something new every day. I just happen to think the coolest subject to learn about is the one inside our heads.
About Nils Böer
Curriculum Vitae
Since 01.09.2021: Doctoral candidate
In my PhD project I'm investigating “The Costs of Deception: Cognitive and Motor Control in the Production of Head Fakes in Basketball”
09/2021 - 08/2024: DFG Project Production costs of deceptions in basketball: Influencing factors in individual settings and interaction scenarios
Doctoral Student in the DFG Projekt 286523897 (DFG GU/1683/1-2)
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/286523897?context=projekt&task=showDetail&id=286523897&
10/2018 - 08/2021: Master of Science - Applied Neuroscience in Sports and Exercise
At Paderborn University
10/2014 - 09/2018: Bachelor of Arts - Applied Sport Science
at Paderborn University
01.06.2016 - 31.08.2021: Student research assistant
Research assistant in the Psychology and Human Movement Group, Department of Exercise and Health, University of Paderborn
Main Tasks: Programming, Data acquisition, IT-Administration, EEG: data acquisition and analysis.
Research
Research Interests
Research disciplines:
- Sport Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Applied Neuroscience
At the moment I'm focused on research in the field of Action and Perception. Our current research investigates the cognitive costs associated with observing as well as producing a deceptive action.
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Latest Publications
Mobilizing effort in complex motor tasks: Try-harder instructions in deceptive actions
N.T. Böer, M.B. Steinborn, M. Weigelt, I. Güldenpenning, Psychology of Sport and Exercise 84 (2026).
Differences of producing head fakes with and without a social partner
N.T. Böer, I. Güldenpenning, M. Weigelt, in: L. Kullik, T. Birnkraut, M. Kellmann (Eds.), 57. Jahrestagung Der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Für Sportpsychologie (ASP), Bochum, 2025, p. 105.
Unraveling the head-fake effect: Dynamic measures of cognitive conflict in sport contexts
I. Güldenpenning, L. Schulze Freilinghaus, N.T. Böer, M. Weigelt, in: C.F. Geißler, L.-M. Schöpper (Eds.), 57. Herbsttagung Experimentelle Kognitionspsychologie (HexKop), Trier, 2025.
How does practice modulate fake-production costs in a basketball task? Analyses of frequency distributions and mixture effects
N.T. Böer, C. Schütz, M. Weigelt, I. Güldenpenning, Psychological Research 89 (2025).
The mere presence of a social partner modulates fake-production costs
N.T. Böer, I. Güldenpenning, M. Weigelt, in: 57th Herbsttreffen Der Experimentellen Kognitionspsychologie (HExKoP), 2025.
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Further Information
Ad hoc reviews
- Sports Medicine - Open
- Frontiers in Psychology
- PLOS One
Memberships
- German society for Psychology (DGPs) - Associate member of the groups:
- Sports Psychology, Biological and Neurological Psychology, General Psychology
- German society of sports science (dvs)
Further education
Transcranial Brain Stimulation: Best Practice
- 25.7 - 29.7.2022: Methodological course on tMS, tES and tUS from "Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V." at the Neuroimaging Center Mainz and at the Department of Neurology in Göttingen
Foundations of EEG – Theory, Hardware and Application Principles
- 08.02.2022-10.02.2022: Digital methodological course on data acquisition and data analysis with the EEG BrainVision