Nils Böer, M.Sc.

Research Student
Sport Psychology Lab
Research Associate
Office Address:
Harsewinkelweg 4
33100 Paderborn
Room:
SP.1.407
Office hours:

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.

Publications

Latest Publications

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.



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.


Context-specific adaptation for head fakes in basketball: a study on player-specific fake-frequency schedules

I. Güldenpenning, N.T. Böer, W. Kunde, C.G. Giesen, K. Rothermund, M. Weigelt, in: K. Fröber, M. Abel, K.-H. Bäuml, G. Dreisbach, O. Kliegl, M. Köster, A. Lingnau, G. Volberg, F.J. Götz (Eds.), Abstracts of the 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, LibreCat University, Regensburg, 2024.


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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