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Overview

Daniel Memmert is affiliated with the German Sport University Cologne in Germany. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on psychology, medicine, and economics, econometrics, and finance. Within these, Memmert's substantial work emphasizes orthopedics and sports medicine, economics and econometrics, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum connected to sports performance. These include sports performance and training, sports analytics and performance, sport psychology and performance, sports injuries and prevention, motivation and self-concept in sports, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and sports dynamics and biomechanics.

Memmert has contributed numerous articles throughout their career with notable recent papers, including:

  • Video assistant referees (VAR): The impact of technology on decision making in association football referees (2020), published in the Journal of Sports Sciences
  • How does spectator presence affect football? Home advantage remains in European top-class football matches played without spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • Perceptual-cognitive processes underlying creative expert performance in soccer (2020), published in Psychological Research
  • Artificial Intelligence Based Body Sensor Network Framework-Narrative Review: Proposing an End-to-End Framework using Wearable Sensors, Real-Time Location Systems and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Algorithms for Data Collection, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Sports and Healthcare (2021), published in Sports Medicine - Open
  • Innovative Approaches in Sports Science-Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis as a Tool to Analyze Sports-Related Twitter Communication (2020), published in Applied Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Robert Rein
  • Fabian Wunderlich
  • Dominik Raabe
  • Ashwin Phatak
  • Saumya Mehta

Memmert's research outputs have appeared regularly in a set of scholarly venues, notably:

  • International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
  • Journal of Sports Sciences
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport
  • German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research

Their body of work reflects a deep engagement with the analysis, application, and advancement of knowledge in sports science, particularly focusing on performance, psychology, analytics, and injury prevention. Their publications contribute to a diverse array of academic discussions ranging from the impact of new technologies in sports to psychological and behavioral analyses in athletic contexts.

Best Publications

  • Play and practice in the development of sport‐specific creativity in team ball sports

    Daniel Memmert;Joseph Baker;Claudia Bertsch

  • The effects of non-specific and specific concepts on tactical creativity in team ball sports

    Daniel Memmert;Klaus Roth

  • The relationship between visual attention and expertise in sports.

    Daniel Memmert;Daniel J. Simons;Thorsten Grimme

  • The Game Performance Assessment Instrument (GPAI): Some Concerns and Solutions for Further Development

    Daniel Memmert;Stephen Harvey

  • The effects of eye movements, age, and expertise on inattentional blindness.

    Daniel Memmert

  • Crowd noise as a cue in referee decisions contributes to the home advantage.

    Christian Unkelbach;Daniel Memmert

  • A Systematic Review of Collective Tactical Behaviours in Football Using Positional Data.

    Benedict Low;Diogo Coutinho;Bruno Gonçalves;Robert Rein

  • Measurement of cognitive functions in experts and elite athletes: A meta-analytic review

    Hans‐Erik Scharfen;Daniel Memmert

  • “Which pass is better?” Novel approaches to assess passing effectiveness in elite soccer

    Robert Rein;Dominik Raabe;Daniel Memmert

  • Pay attention! A review of visual attentional expertise in sport

    Daniel Memmert

  • Can Creativity Be Improved by an Attention-Broadening Training Program? An Exploratory Study Focusing on Team Sports

    Daniel Memmert

  • "I spy with my little eye!": breadth of attention, inattentional blindness, and tactical decision making in team sports.

    Daniel Memmert;Philip Furley

  • The role of working memory in sport

    Philip Alexander Furley;Daniel Memmert

  • Creative Motor Actions As Emerging from Movement Variability.

    Dominic Orth;John van der Kamp;Daniel Memmert;Geert J. P. Savelsbergh

  • Game Management, Context Effects, and Calibration: The Case of Yellow Cards in Soccer

    Christian Unkelbach;Daniel Memmert

  • Working memory capacity as controlled attention in tactical decision making.

    Philip A. Furley;Daniel Memmert

  • The Impact of a Sports Vision Training Program in Youth Field Hockey Players

    Sebastian Schwab;Daniel Memmert

  • Teaching Tactical Creativity in Sport: Research and Practice

    Daniel Memmert

  • Testing of Tactical Performance in Youth Elite Soccer

    Daniel Memmert

  • Creativity and working memory capacity in sports: working memory capacity is not a limiting factor in creative decision making amongst skilled performers

    Philip Furley;Daniel Memmert

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Unkelbach
Christian Unkelbach University of Cologne
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John van der Kamp
John van der Kamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ilona Papousek
Ilona Papousek University of Graz
Mathias Benedek
Mathias Benedek University of Graz
Thomas Schack
Thomas Schack Bielefeld University
Andreas Fink
Andreas Fink University of Graz
Paul R. Ford
Paul R. Ford St. Mary's University
Elisabeth M. Weiss
Elisabeth M. Weiss University of Innsbruck
Joseph Baker
Joseph Baker University of Toronto

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