Mind and Motion: The Bidirectional Link between Thought and Action

Dr. Markus Raab is Head of the Institute of Psychology at the German Sport University and Head of the Performance Psychology Department. Additionally, he is Research Professor of Psychology at London South Bank University, UK. He obtained his MSc in Sport Science and PhDs in Movement Science and Cognitive Psychology. The main focus of the research programme in performance psychology is on judgement and decision making in sports, health and peak performance. He favours a simple heuristic approach and an embodied cognition approach to understanding the interaction of sensorimotor and cognitive behaviour from a psychological perspective. Dr. Raab brings more than two decades of experience to the project and co-edited the first edition of Elsevier’s Performance Psychology.

• 1. Grounding Cognition in Action: Expertise, Comprehension, and Judgment2. On the relativity of athletic performance: A comparison perspective on performance judgments in sports3. A cognitive movement scientist’s view on the link between thought and action: Insights from the “Badische Zimmer” metaphor4. Perceiving and moving in High Pressure Contexts 5. How do people perceive and generate options6. How the orbitofrontal cortex contributes to decision-making. A view from neuroscience7. Perceiving the intentions of others: How do skilled performers make anticipation judgements?8. The bidirectional links between decision-making, perception and action9. Failing to perform in Penalty Kicks 10. Getting around: Making fast and frugal navigation decisions11. A Sequential Sampling Approach for Multiattribute Choice Options12. Embodied cognition of movement decisions: A computational modeling approach13. A multiple-cue learning approach as the basis for understanding and improving football referees’ intuitive decision making14. A Conceptual Framework for Integrating the Emotion-Perception-Cognition-Motion Systems 15. The influence of visual cues on the planning and execution of coordinated motor behavior 16. How Do Motoric Realities Shape, and Become Shaped By, the Way People Evaluate and Select Potential Courses of Action?17. Perceptual decision making: A bidirectional link between mind and motion18. Motor Imagery and its Implications for Understanding the Motor System19. The Cognitive Nature of Action – Functional Links between Cognitive Psychology, Movement Science and Robotics20. Mental Representations as an Underlying Mechanism for Human Performance21. Biases and Optimality of Sensory-Motor and Cognitive Decision22. Advances In Coupling Perception And Action: The Quiet Eye As A Bidirectional Link Between Gaze, Attention And Action 23. Juggling with the brain - thought and action in the human motor system. 24. How are actions physically implemented?25. Mind and motion: Surveying successes and stumbles in looking ahead