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Overview

Markus Raab is affiliated with the German Sport University Cologne in Germany. Their research lies primarily in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a substantial contribution to cognitive neuroscience and social psychology among other subfields.

Their work explores a variety of topics related to sports and psychological performance. Main topics covered in their research include:

  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Sports Performance and Training

Markus Raab has published extensively in several venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Sport Exercise and Performance Psychology
  • Experimental Brain Research

Co-authorship appears to be an important aspect of their research, featuring collaborations with multiple recurring partners. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Lisa Musculus
  • Sylvain Laborde
  • Karen Zentgraf
  • Laura Broeker
  • Rouwen Cañal-Bruland

Recent notable papers by Markus Raab include:

  • The referee's challenge: a threshold process model for decision making in sport games, 2020, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review, 2020, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • The role of domain-specific and domain-general cognitive functions and skills in sports performance: A meta-analysis, 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation May Enhance Only Specific Aspects of the Core Executive Functions. A Randomized Crossover Trial, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation via tragus or cymba conchae: Are its psychophysiological effects dependent on the stimulation area?, 2021, International Journal of Psychophysiology

Best Publications

  • Take The First: Option-generation and resulting choices

    Joseph G. Johnson;Markus Raab

  • Twenty years of “hot hand” research: Review and critique

    Michael Bar-Eli;Simcha Avugos;Markus Raab

  • Benefits of an external focus of attention: common coding or conscious processing?

    J. M. Poolton;J. P. Maxwell;R. S. W. Masters;M. Raab

  • Setting the scientific stage for esports psychology: a systematic review

    Ismael Pedraza-Ramirez;Lisa Musculus;Markus Raab;Sylvain Laborde

  • Expertise-based differences in search and option-generation strategies.

    Markus Raab;Joseph G. Johnson

  • Implicit Motor Learning and Complex Decision Making in Time-Constrained Environments

    R. S. W. Masters;J. M. Poolton;J. P. Maxwell;M. Raab

  • Theories of Decision Making

    Michael Bar‐Eli;Henning Plessner;Markus Raab

  • Judgment, Decision-making and Success in Sport

    Michael Bar-Eli;Henning Plessner;Markus Raab

  • Improving the ‘how’ and ‘what’ decisions of elite table tennis players

    Markus Raab;Rich S.W. Masters;Jonathan P. Maxwell

  • Decision making in sports: Influence of complexity on implicit and explicit learning

    Markus Raab

  • The hot hand exists in volleyball and is used for allocation decisions

    Markus Raab;Bartosz Gula;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The role of domain-specific and domain-general cognitive functions and skills in sports performance: A meta-analysis.

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  • First long term in vivo study on subdurally implanted Micro-ECoG electrodes, manufactured with a novel laser technology

    C. Henle;M. Raab;J. G. Cordeiro;S. Doostkam

  • The “hot hand” reconsidered: A meta-analytic approach

    Simcha Avugos;Simcha Avugos;Jörn Köppen;Uwe Czienskowski;Markus Raab

  • When to blink and when to think: preference for intuitive decisions results in faster and better tactical choices.

    Markus Raab;Sylvain Laborde

  • The power of simplicity: A fast-and-frugal heuristics approach to performance science

    Markus Raab;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The tale of hearts and reason: the influence of mood on decision making.

    Sylvain Laborde;Markus Raab

  • Data Mining in Elite Sports: A Review and a Framework

    Bahadorreza Ofoghi;John Zeleznikow;Clare MacMahon;Markus Raab

  • Perceptual Judgments of Sports Officials are Influenced by their Motor and Visual Experience

    Alexandra Pizzera;Markus Raab

  • Why You Think Milan is Larger than Modena: Neural Correlates of the Recognition Heuristic

    Kirsten G. Volz;Lael J. Schooler;Ricarda I. Schubotz;Markus Raab

  • Sports officials and officiating: science and practice

    Clare MacMahon;Duncan Mascarenhas;Henning Plessner;Alexandra Pizzera

  • Perspectives on Cognition and Action in Sport

    Duarte Araújo;Hubert Ripoll;Markus Raab

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvain Laborde
Sylvain Laborde German Sport University Cologne
Michael Bar-Eli
Michael Bar-Eli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ricarda Ines Schubotz
Ricarda Ines Schubotz University of Münster
Roman Liepelt
Roman Liepelt University of Hagen
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Rich S. W. Masters
Rich S. W. Masters University of Waikato
Duarte Araújo
Duarte Araújo University of Lisbon
Damian Farrow
Damian Farrow Victoria University
Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer University of Potsdam
Raôul R. D. Oudejans
Raôul R. D. Oudejans Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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