Nils Böer, M.Sc.
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Harsewinkelweg 4
33100 Paderborn - Room:
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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
Current research topics:
- Cognitive costs of deceptive actions
- Decision-making processes
- (Motor-motor) Dual-Tasks
- Perception-action coupling
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).
Early postural dynamics reveal the rapid processing of fake social cues for deceptive actions in sports
I. Güldenpenning, L. Schulze Frielinghaus, N.T. Böer, T. Schmidt, M. Weigelt, Scientific Reports 16 (2026).
When Trying Harder Helps: Effort Instructions Affect Performance in Complex Motor Tasks
N.T. Böer, M.B. Steinborn, M. Weigelt, I. Güldenpenning, in: B. Kaup, L. Roth, F. Rück (Eds.), Abstracts of the 68th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Tübingen, 2026.
From interference to priming? Reinterpreting the head-fake effect in basketball through continuous measurements
I. Güldenpenning, L. Schulze Frielinghaus, N.T. Böer, M. Weigelt, in: K. Barbara, R. Lilly, R. Franziska (Eds.), Abstracts of the 68th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Tübingen, 2026.
Rapid chase or continuous flow of information? Visual-motor processing of head fakes in basketball
I. Güldenpenning, L. Schulze Frielinghaus, N.T. Böer, M. Weigelt, in: Abstracts of the 58th Annual Conference of the German Association of Sport Psychology, Heidelberg, 2026.
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Teaching
Current Courses
- Psychologische Aspekte sportlicher Aktivität (Gruppe 3)
- Psychologische Aspekte sportlicher Aktivität (Gruppe 2)
Further Information
Ad hoc reviews
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- PLOS One
- Sports Medicine - Open
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)
- European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC)
Further education/Workshops
Agentic AI: The new software paradigm
- 2026: Online-Workshop - KI-Campus.org
Machine Learning and Deep Learning with IBM
- 2026: Online-Workshop - KI-Campus.org
Natural language systems as an opportunity for academic teaching
- 2026: Online-Workshop - KI-Campus.org
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