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Overview

Thomas Schack is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has a research focus primarily within the field of psychology. Their scholarly contributions include over 100 publications centered on various subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, general health professions, and clinical psychology.

The main areas of study for Thomas Schack cover motor control and adaptation, sport psychology and performance, action observation and synchronization, COVID-19 and mental health, neural and behavioral psychology studies, global maternal and child health, as well as motivation and self-concept in sports.

Frequent publication venues where Thomas Schack's work appears include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Healthcare
  • COVID
  • Scientific Reports

They have co-authored numerous papers with several researchers, notably:

  • John Elvis Hagan
  • Medina Srem-Sai
  • Frank Quansah
  • Edmond Kwesi Agormedah
  • Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Rising Above Misinformation or Fake News in Africa: Another Strategy to Control COVID-19 Spread" (2020) published in Frontiers in Communication
  • "Female adolescents' reproductive health decision-making capacity and contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa: What does the future hold?" (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Socio-economic and demographic determinants of female genital mutilation in sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys" (2020) published in Reproductive Health
  • "COVID-19 Pandemic Worsening Gender Inequalities for Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa" (2021) published in Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • "Determinants of antenatal care and skilled birth attendance services utilization among childbearing women in Guinea: evidence from the 2018 Guinea Demographic and Health Survey data" (2021) published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

In addition to journal articles, Thomas Schack has contributed to a book published by Frontiers Media titled Learning and Skill Acquisition in Sports: Theoretical Perspectives, released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The effects of mental practice in stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review.

    Susy M. Braun;Anna J. Beurskens;Paul J. Borm;Thomas Schack

  • Representation of motor skills in human long-term memory

    Thomas Schack;Franz Mechsner

  • The cognitive architecture of complex movement

    Thomas Schack

  • Mental representation and mental practice: experimental investigation on the functional links between motor memory and motor imagery.

    Cornelia Frank;William Marshall Land;Carmen Popp;Thomas Schack

  • The cognitive structure of movements in classical dance

    Bettina Bläsing;G. Tenenbaum;Thomas Schack

  • Mental representation and motor imagery training.

    Thomas Schack;Kai Essig;Cornelia Frank;Dirk Koester

  • The Neurocognition of Dance: Mind, Movement and Motor Skills

    Bettina Bläsing;Martin Puttke;Thomas Schack

  • A Systematic Investigation of the Effect of Action Observation Training and Motor Imagery Training on the Development of Mental Representation Structure and Skill Performance

    Taeho Kim;Cornelia Frank;Thomas Schack

  • Measuring Mental Representations

    Thomas Schack

  • Sensorimotor Rhythm Neurofeedback Enhances Golf Putting Performance

    Ming Yang Cheng;Chung Ju Huang;Yu Kai Chang;Dirk Koester

  • Using mental practice in stroke rehabilitation: a framework

    Susy Braun;Melanie Kleynen;Jos Schols;Thomas Schack

  • Editorial: Modularity in motor control: from muscle synergies to cognitive action representation

    Andrea d'Avella;Martin A Giese;Yuri P. Ivanenko;Thomas Schack

  • Representation of grasp postures and anticipatory motor planning in children.

    Tino Stöckel;Charmayne M. L. Hughes;Thomas Schack

  • Action‐Theory Approach to Applied Sport Psychology

    Thomas Schack;Dieter Hackfort

  • Mental representation and learning: The influence of practice on the development of mental representation structure in complex action

    Cornelia Frank;William Marshall Land;Thomas Schack

  • Moving and memorizing: Motor planning modulates the recency effect in serial and free recall

    Matthias Weigelt;David A. Rosenbaum;Sven Huelshorst;Thomas Schack;Thomas Schack

  • Perceptual-Cognitive Changes During Motor Learning: The Influence of Mental and Physical Practice on Mental Representation, Gaze Behavior, and Performance of a Complex Action

    Cornelia Frank;William Marshall Land;Thomas Schack

  • Cognitive representations and cognitive processing of team-specific tactics in soccer.

    Heiko Lex;Kai Essig;Andreas Knoblauch;Thomas Schack

  • Rising Above Misinformation or Fake News in Africa: Another Strategy to Control COVID-19 Spread

    Bright Opoku Ahinkorah;Edward Kwabena Ameyaw;John Elvis Jr. Hagan;John Elvis Jr. Hagan;Abdul-Aziz Seidu

  • The functional role of working memory in the (re-)planning and execution of grasping movements.

    Marnie Ann Spiegel;Dirk Koester;Thomas Schack

  • The development of end-state comfort planning in preschool children.

    Matthias Weigelt;Thomas Schack

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Kunde
Wilfried Kunde University of Würzburg
Peter Brugger
Peter Brugger University of Zurich
Gershon Tenenbaum
Gershon Tenenbaum Reichman University
Tsung Min Hung
Tsung Min Hung National Taiwan University
Robert J. Schinke
Robert J. Schinke Laurentian University
Daniel Memmert
Daniel Memmert German Sport University Cologne
David A. Rosenbaum
David A. Rosenbaum University of California, Riverside
Marc O. Ernst
Marc O. Ernst University of Ulm
Martin A. Giese
Martin A. Giese University of Tübingen
Athanasios Papaioannou
Athanasios Papaioannou University Of Thessaly

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