Prof. Dr. Rouwen Cañal Bruland

• since 10.2016: Professor for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Institute of Sport Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
• 04.2008 - 09.2016: Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Movement Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 12.2007: PhD, University of Münster, Germany

Visiting Professorships

• 07.2023 - 07.2026: Loughborough University, "Visiting Professor of Human Movement Science" in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences (SSEHS), UK (websiteExternal link)
• 06.2023: The University of British Columbia, Visiting Professor in the School of Kinesiology, Canada

In addition, several international, short-term research stays as Visiting Researcher at Liverpool John Moores University (UK; 2005, approx. 6 weeks), the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, China; 2009, approx. 4 weeks) and the University of Virginia (USA; 2012, approx. 2 weeks).

Research Interests:

• Motor learning and motor control
• Embodied cognition/ Embodied decision-making/ Embodied perception
• Perception and Action
• Expertise
• Cognition and motor performance
• Emotion and motor performance
• Visual perception, attention and anticipation
• Multisensory integration in sport
• Social interactions

Selected Current Research Projects (funded by the German Research Foundation, VolkswagenStiftung):

• Navigating Anticipation Research to New Frontiers 
  Funding agency: VolkswagenStiftung (Momentum)
  Period: June 2024 - May 2028
  Principal Investigator: Cañal Bruland, R. (PI, FSU Jena)
• Unraveling crosstalk from lower-level motor coordination to higher levels in the cognitive-behavioral hierarchy
  Funding agency: German Research Foundation (DFG within the DFG SPP 1772)
  Period: January 2019 - September 2022
  Principal Investigators: Cañal Bruland, R. (PI, FSU Jena) & Herbort, O. (PI & JMU Würzburg)
• Moving in time and space - Do (a)symmetric time-space mappings depend on modality-specific processing?
  Funding agency: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  Period: October 2018 - December 2020
  Principal Investigators: Cañal Bruland, R. (PI, FSU Jena) & Raab, M. (PI, DSHS Köln) together with Loeffler, J. (DSHS)
• The groundedness of temporal and spatial representations in movement: Examining the bi-directionality and asymmetry hypotheses from an embodied cognition perspective
  Funding agency: German Research Foundation (DFG)
  Period: November 2014 - February 2018
  Principal Investigators: Raab, M. (PI, DSHS Köln) & Cañal Bruland, R. (Co-PI, FSU Jena)

Supervised PhDs (supervisor & co-supervisor roles) and PhD-related publications:

Dr. Joost Pluijms - 2016, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (supervised together with Prof. Geert Savelsbergh).

Title of dissertation: Perceptual-cognitive skills and expert performance in sailing

• Pluijms, J.P., Cañal-Bruland, R., Kats, S. & Savelsbergh, G.J.P. (2013). Translating key methodological issues into technological advancements when running in-situ experiments in sports: An example from sailing. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 8, 89-103.
• Pluijms, J.P., Cañal-Bruland, R., Bergmann Tiest, W.M., Mulder, F.A. & Savelsbergh, G.J.P. (2015). Expertise effects in cutaneous wind perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77, 2121-2133.
• Pluijms, J.P., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Savelsbergh, G.J.P. (2015). Zeilen voor goud: Hoe dan? Perceptuele vaardigheden en expertise-verschillen in de zeilsport. Tijdschrift voor Human Factors, 40(3), 19-24.
• Pluijms, J.P., Cañal-Bruland, R., Hoozemans, M.J.M. & Savelsbergh, G.J.P. (2015). Visual search, movement behaviour and boat control during the windward mark rounding in sailing. Journal of Sports Sciences, 33, 398-410.
• Pluijms, J.P., Cañal-Bruland, R., Hoozemans, M.J.M., Böcker, K., van Beek, M. & Savelsbergh, G.J.P. (2016). Quantifying external focus of attention in sailing by means of action sport cameras. Journal of Sports Sciences, 34, 1588-1595.

Dr. Jonna Löffler - 2018, German Sport University Cologne (supervised together with Prof. Markus Raab).

Title of dissertation: With the past behind and the future ahead: How forward and backward movement impact temporal and spatial representations.

• Loeffler, J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2016). A lifespan perspective on embodied cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:845.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Does movement influence representations of time and space? PLOS ONE, 12(4): e0175192.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Walking back to the future: The impact of walking backward and forward on spatial and temporal concepts. Experimental Psychology, 64, 346-258.

Additional publications related to the PhD project:

• Loeffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R., Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, W. & Raab, M. (2018). Interrelations between temporal and spatial cognition and movement: The role of modality-specific processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2609.
• Raab, M., Loeffler, J., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2018). Embodied Cognition in der Lebensspanne. In U. Granacher, H. Mechling & C. Voelcker-Rehage (Eds.), Handbuch Bewegungs- und Sportgerontologie (pp. 460-466). Schorndorf: Hofmann.
• Loeffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Raab, M. (2020). Embodied Cognition. In J. Schüler, M. Wegner & H. Plessner (Eds.), Sportpsychologie – Grundlagen und Anwendungen (pp. 115-137). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
• Loeffler, J., Haunhorst, H., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Raab, M. (2021). Embodied Cognition: Sprache, Metaphern und Instruktionen im Sport. In A. Güllich und M. Krüger (Eds.), Sport in Kultur und Gesellschaft (pp. 313-326). Berlin: Springer.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Let’s do the time warp again – embodied learning of the concept of time in an applied school setting. Interactive Learning Environments, 31:1, 397-406.

Dr. Laura Sperl - 2021, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Title of dissertation: Challenges in motor skill change: Unraveling behavioral, cognitive and electrophysiological correlates of proactive interference

*** Laura Sperl received the split 3rd prize in the 2023 dissertation awards by the section General & Cognitive Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) *** 

• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Changing automatized movement patterns. In N. J. Hodges & A. M. Williams (Eds.), Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (3rd edition) (pp. 20-38). London: Routledge.
• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Interindividual differences in the capability to change automatized movement patterns. Acta Psychologica, 204, 103027.
• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Reducing proactive interference in motor tasks. Journal of Motor Behavior, 52, 372-381.
• Sperl, L., Ambrus, G. G., Kaufmann, J., Schweinberger, S. R. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Electrophysiological correlates underlying interference control in motor tasks. Biological Psychology, 163, 108138.
• Sperl, L., Gergeleit, T. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). On the role of different subdimensions of inhibition for successful motor skill change. Human Movement Science, 77, 102801.
• Sperl, L., Ruttloff, J., Ambrus, G.G., Kaufmann, J., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Schweinberger, S. R. (2021). Effects of motor restrictions on preparatory brain activity. Experimental Brain Research, 239, 3189-3203.

Dr. Amelie Heinrich - 2022, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (supervised together with Prof. Oliver Stoll).

Title of dissertation: Elite Biathlon – An Interdisciplinary Approch to Unravel the Intricate Links Between Biological, Psychological and Social Factors Determining Biathlon Performance

*** Amelie Heinrich received the "dvs-Promotionspreis 2023" (dvs dissertation award) funded by the Hofmann-Verlag (1. prize) for the best PhD thesis in sport science over the last two years by the German Society of Sport Science (Deutschen Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft (dvs) ***

• Hansen, D.W., Heinrich, A. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2019). Aiming for the Quiet Eye in Biathlon. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '19; article No. 10; 7 pages). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
• Heinrich, A., Hansen, D. W., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). The impact of physiological fatigue and gaze behavior on shooting performance in expert biathletes. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 23, 883-890.
• Heinrich, A., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). A biopsychosocial framework to guide interdisciplinary research on biathlon performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:671901.
• Heinrich, A., Müller, F., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Selection bias in social facilitation theory? Audience effects on elite biathletes’ performance are gender-specific. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 55, 101943.
• Heinrich, A., Köhler, H., Müller, F., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). The impact of co-acting competitors on shooting performance in elite biathletes. Journal of Sports Sciences, 40, 2028-2036.

Dr. Anna Schröger - 2022, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (supervised together with Prof. Markus Raab).

Title of dissertation: Spatiotemporal biases in manual interception – effects of visual and auditory information processing

*** Anna Schröger received the split 3rd prize in the 2023 dissertation awards by the section General & Cognitive Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) ***

• Loeffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R., Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, W. & Raab, M. (2018). Interrelations between temporal and spatial cognition and movement: The role of modality-specific processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2609.
• Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, W. J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Effects of visual blur and contrast on spatial and temporal precision in manual interception. Experimental Brain Research, 239, 3343-3358.
• Tolentino-Castro, W. J., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Raab, M. (2022). The impact of pitch on tempo-spatial accuracy and precision in intercepting a virtually moving ball. Journal of Motor Behavior, 54, 158-172.
• Schroeger, A., Grießbach, E., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Spatial distances affect temporal prediction and interception. Scientific Reports, 12, 15786.
• Schroeger, A., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Tau and kappa in interception – how perceptual spatiotemporal interrelations affect movements. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 1925-1943.
• Kreyenmeier, P., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., Raab, M. & Spering, M. (2023). Rapid audiovisual integration guides predictive actions. eNeuro, 10(8), ENEURO.0134-23.2023, 1-10.
• Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., & Raab, M. (2024). Increasing auditory intensity enhances temporal but deteriorates spatial accuracy in a virtual interception task. Experimental Brain Research, 242, 937-947.

Dr. Alexandra Hildebrandt - 2022, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

Topic of the PhD project: Multisensory integration in complex rhythmic motor tasks

• Hildebrandt, A. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Is gait-based visual regulation identical to gaze-based visual regulation in inexperienced athletes’ long-jump run-ups? Human Movement Science, 73, 102681.
• Hildebrandt, A. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Effects of auditory feedback on gait behavior, gaze patterns and outcome performance in long jumping. Human Movement Science, 78, 102827.
• Hildebrandt, A., Grießbach, E. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Auditory perception dominates in motor rhythm reproduction. Perception, 51, 403-416.

Dr. Eric Grießbach - 2023, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (supervised together with Dr. Oliver Herbort).

Topic of the PhD project: Embodied decision biases during walking

*** Eric Grießbach received the "Qualification Award 2025" awarded by the motor control and learning section of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs) for the best PhD thesis in the last two years ***

• Grießbach, E., Incagli, F., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Body dynamics of gait affect value-based decisions. Scientific Reports, 11, 11894.
• Raßbach, P., Grießbach, E., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Herbort, O. (2021). Deciding while moving: Cognitive interference biases value-based decisions. Acta Psychologica, 221, 103449.
• Grießbach, E., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Wechselwirkung von motorischen und kognitiven Prozessen in hierarchisch organisiertem Verhalten (pp. 46-58). In S. Klatt & B. Strauß (Hrsg.), Kognition und Motorik – Sportpsychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungen im Sport. Göttingen, Hogrefe Verlag.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Embodied decisions during walking. Journal of Neurophysiology, 128, 1207-1223.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Embodied decision biases – individually stable across different tasks? Experimental Brain Research,  241, 1053-1064.
• Raßbach, P., Grießbach, E., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Herbort, O. (2024). State anticipation and task serialization attenuate embodied decision biases when deciding while moving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(7), 683-705.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2024). Dual-tasking modulates movement speed but not value-based choices during walking. Scientific Reports, 14, 6342.

Philipp Raßbach - ongoing supervision (since 2020), Julius Maximilians University Würzburg (supervised together with Dr. Oliver Herbort).

Topic of the PhD project: Unraveling crosstalk from lower-level motor coordination to higher levels in the cognitive-behavioral hierarchy

• Raßbach, P., Grießbach, E., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Herbort, O. (2021). Deciding while moving: Cognitive interference biases value-based decisions. Acta Psychologica, 221, 103449.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Embodied decisions during walking. Journal of Neurophysiology, 128, 1207-1223.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Embodied decision biases – individually stable across different tasks? Experimental Brain Research,  241, 1053-1064.
• Raßbach, P., Grießbach, E., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Herbort, O. (2024). State anticipation and task serialization attenuate embodied decision biases when deciding while moving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(7), 683-705.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2024). Dual-tasking modulates movement speed but not value-based choices during walking. Scientific Reports, 14, 6342.

Henrietta Weinberg - ongoing supervision (since 2022), Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• Weinberg, H., Müller, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2025/ accepted). Context modulates evidence accumulation in split-second handball penalty decisions. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications. 

Norman Hüttner - ongoing supervision (since 2022), Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• Hüttner, N., Müller, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Motor performance in joint action tasks: The impact of dyadic motive fit. Human Movement Science, 90, 103100.

Selected publications in peer-review journals (2016-today):

• Cañal-Bruland, R. & Mann, D. L. (advance online). DyNamic Interactive Anticipation - Time for a Paradigmatic Shift. Sports Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-024-02135-9External link
• Müller, F., Hocke, S. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2025). Pick your battles: Elite ski-jumpers’ motives affect world cup performance depending on competition type. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 76, 102749.
• Seidel-Marzi, O., Amatriain-Fernández, S. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (advance online). Are core executive functions predictive of decision-making in sports? A scoping review. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
• Seidel-Marzi, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (advance online). The impact of working memory capacity on intuitive decision-making in sport. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
• Seidel-Marzi, O., Williams, A. M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (advance online). The role of deliberation in intuitive decision-making in sports. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 
• Weinberg, H., Müller, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2025). Context modulates evidence accumulation in split-second handball penalty decisions. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 10:2, 1-15
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2024). Dual-tasking modulates movement speed but not value-based choices during walking. Scientific Reports, 14, 6342. 
• Müller, F., Will, J. J. R. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2024). Multisensory integration in anticipation: Moderating effects of time and task constraints. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22(2), 333-349.
• Raßbach, P., Grießbach, E., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Herbort, O. (2024). State anticipation and task serialization attenuate embodied decision biases when deciding while moving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 50(7), 683-705.
• Tolentino-Castro, J. W., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., & Raab, M. (2024). Increasing auditory intensity enhances temporal but deteriorates spatial accuracy in a virtual interception task. Experimental Brain Research, 242, 937-947. 
• Cañal-Bruland, R. & Raab, M. (2023). Embodied choices bypass narratives under radical uncertainty. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e88, 34-35.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Embodied decision biases – individually stable across different tasks? Experimental Brain Research,  241, 1053-1064.
• Güldenpenning, I., Jackson, R. C. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). The science of deceptive human movement (editorial to special issue). Human Movement Science, 92, 103147.
• Hüttner, N., Müller, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Motor performance in joint action tasks: The impact of dyadic motive fit. Human Movement Science, 90, 103100.
• Kreyenmeier, P., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R., Raab, M. & Spering, M. (2023). Rapid audiovisual integration guides predictive actions. eNeuro, 10(8), ENEURO.0134-23.2023, 1-10.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Let’s do the time warp again – embodied learning of the concept of time in an applied school setting. Interactive Learning Environments, 31:1, 397-406.
• Müller, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). On the relationship between individual differences in motives and motor performance. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 18(2), 480-498.
• Cañal-Bruland, R., Meyerhoff, H.S. & Müller, F. (2022). Context modulates the impact of auditory information on anticipation. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7:76, 1-9.
• Grießbach, E., Raßbach, P., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Embodied decisions during walking. Journal of Neurophysiology, 128, 1207-1223.
• Heinrich, A., Köhler, H., Müller, F., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). The impact of co-acting competitors on shooting performance in elite biathletes. Journal of Sports Sciences, 40, 2028-2036.
• Hildebrandt, A., Grießbach, E. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Auditory perception dominates in motor rhythm reproduction. Perception, 51, 403-416.
• Schroeger, A., Grießbach, E., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Spatial distances affect temporal prediction and interception. Scientific Reports, 12, 15786.
• Schroeger, A., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Tau and kappa in interception – how perceptual spatiotemporal interrelations affect movements. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 1925-1943.
• Tolentino-Castro, W. J., Schroeger, A., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Raab, M. (2022). The impact of pitch on tempo-spatial accuracy and precision in intercepting a virtually moving ball. Journal of Motor Behavior, 54, 158-172.
• Grießbach, E., Incagli, F., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Body dynamics of gait affect value-based decisions. Scientific Reports, 11, 11894.
• Heinrich, A., Müller, F., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Selection bias in social facilitation theory? Audience effects on elite biathletes’ performance are gender-specific. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 55, 101943.
• Heinrich, A., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). A biopsychosocial framework to guide interdisciplinary research on biathlon performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:671901.
• Hildebrandt, A. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Effects of auditory feedback on gait behavior, gaze patterns and outcome performance in long jumping. Human Movement Science, 78, 102827.
• Müller, F., Abad Borger, K., Kellermann, C. M., Wellnitz, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). The relationship of motive disposition and situational incentives to individual differences in choking under pressure. Human Movement Science, 78, 102831.
• Raßbach, P., Grießbach, E., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Herbort, O. (2021). Deciding while moving: Cognitive interference biases value-based decisions. Acta Psychologica, 221, 103449. 
• Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, W. J., Raab, M., Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Effects of visual blur and contrast on spatial and temporal precision in manual interception. Experimental Brain Research, 239, 3343-3358.
• Sperl, L., Ambrus, G. G., Kaufmann, J., Schweinberger, S. R. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Electrophysiological correlates underlying interference control in motor tasks. Biological Psychology, 163, 108138.
• Sperl, L., Gergeleit, T. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). On the role of different subdimensions of inhibition for successful motor skill change. Human Movement Science, 77, 102801.
• Sperl, L., Ruttloff, J., Ambrus, G. G., Kaufmann, J., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Schweinberger, S. R. (2021). Effects of motor restrictions on preparatory brain activity. Experimental Brain Research, 239, 3189-3203.
• de la Rosa, S., Meilinger, T., Streuber, S., Saulton, A., Fademrecht, L., Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Bülthoff, H., Bülthoff, I., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Visual appearance modulates motor control in social interactions. Acta Psychologica, 210, 103168.
• Heinrich, A., Hansen, D. W., Stoll, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). The impact of physiological fatigue and gaze behavior on shooting performance in expert biathletes. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 23, 883-890.
• Helm, F., Cañal-Bruland, R., Mann, D. L., Troje, N. F. & Munzert, J. (2020). Integrating situational probability and kinematic information when anticipating disguised movements. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 46, 101607.
• Hildebrandt, A. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Is gait-based visual regulation identical to gaze-based visual regulation in inexperienced athletes’ long-jump run-ups? Human Movement Science, 73, 102681.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Let’s do the time warp again – Embodied learning of the concept of time in an applied school setting. Interactive Learning Environments.
• Müller, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Interindividual differences in incentive sensitivity moderate motivational effects of competition and cooperation on motor performance. PLOS ONE, 15(9): e0237607.
• Müller, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Motivation in the wild: A critical review of the relationship between motives and motor performance. Motivation Science,  6, 93-109.
• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Interindividual differences in the capability to change automatized movement patterns. Acta Psychologica, 204, 103027.
• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Reducing proactive interference in motor tasks. Journal of Motor Behavior, 52, 372-381. (doi: 10.1080/00222895.2019.1635984)
• Loffing, F., Prelle, L., Heil, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2019). Body-specific influences on performance evaluation in realistic dynamic scenes. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 24, 355-372.
• Müller, F., Jauernig, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2019). The sound of speed: How grunting affects opponents’ anticipation in tennis. PLoS ONE, 14(4): e0214819.
• Cañal-Bruland, R., Müller, F., Lach, B. & Spence, C. (2018). Auditory contributions to visual anticipation in tennis. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 36, 100-103.
• Gray, R. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2018). Integrating visual trajectory and probabilistic information in baseball batting. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 36, 123-131.
• Loeffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R., Schroeger, A., Tolentino-Castro, W. & Raab, M. (2018). Interrelations between temporal and spatial cognition and movement: The role of modality-specific processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2609.
• Müller, F., Best, J. F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2018). Goalkeepers’ reputations bias shot placement in soccer penalties. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 40, 128-134.
• Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Deception Detection in Action: Embodied Simulation in Antisocial Human Interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:166.
• Eils, E., Cañal-Bruland, R., Sieverding, L., de Lussanet, M., & Zentgraf, K. (2017). Vision adds to haptics when dyads perform a whole-body joint balance task. Experimental Brain Research, 235, 2089-2102.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Does movement influence representations of time and space? PLoS ONE, 12(4): e0175192.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Walking back to the future: The impact of walking backward and forward on spatial and temporal concepts. Experimental Psychology, 64, 346-258.
• Loffing, F. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Anticipation in sport. Current Opinion in Psychology, 16, 6-11.
• Rinsma, T., van der Kamp, J., Dicks, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Nothing magical: Pantomimed grasping is controlled by the ventral stream. Experimental Brain Research, 235, 1823-1833.
• Stins, J.F., Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Hulzinga, F., Wenker, E., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2017). Words that move us. The effects of sentences on body sway. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13, 156-165.
• Cañal-Bruland, R., van der Kamp, J. & Gray, R. (2016). Acting is Perceiving! Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39 (e233), 22-23.
• Cañal-Bruland, R., van der Meer, Y. & Moerman, J. (2016). Can visual illusions be used to facilitate sport skill learning? Journal of Motor Behavior, 48, 385-389.
• Loeffler, J., Raab, M. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2016). A lifespan perspective on embodied cognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:845.
• Pluijms, J.P., Cañal-Bruland, R., Hoozemans, M.J.M., Böcker, K., van Beek, M. & Savelsbergh, G.J.P. (2016). Quantifying external focus of attention in sailing by means of action sport cameras. Journal of Sports Sciences, 34, 1588-1595.
• Stins, J., Habets, L., Jongeling, R. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2016). Being (un)moved by mental time travel. Consciousness and Cognition, 42, 374-381.

Selected book chapters:

• Raab, M., Löffler, J., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2023). Embodied Cognition (pp. 117-141). In J. Schüler, M. Wegner, H. Plessner, & R.C. Eklund (Eds.), Sport and Exercise Psychology . Springer, Cham.
• Grießbach, E., Herbort, O. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2022). Wechselwirkung von motorischen und kognitiven Prozessen in hierarchisch organisiertem Verhalten (pp. 46-58). In S. Klatt & B. Strauß (Hrsg.), Kognition und Motorik – Sportpsychologische Grundlagen und Anwendungen im Sport. Göttingen, Hogrefe Verlag.
• Loeffler, J., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Raab, M. (2020). Embodied Cognition. In J. Schüler, M. Wegner & H. Plessner (Eds.), Sportpsychologie – Grundlagen und Anwendung (pp. 115-137). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Changing automatized movement patterns. In N. J. Hodges & A. M. Williams (Eds.), Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (3rd edition) (pp. 20-38). Routledge.
• Jackson, R. C. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2019). Deception in sport. In A. M. Williams & R. C. Jackson (Eds.), Anticipation and Decision Making in Sport (pp. 99-116). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
• Loeffler, J., Haunhorst, H., Cañal-Bruland, R. & Raab, M. (2018). Embodied Cognition: Sprache, Metaphern und Instruktionen im Sport. In A. Güllich und M. Krüger (Eds.), Sport in Kultur und Gesellschaft (pp. 1-14). Berlin: Springer.
• Raab, M., Loeffler, J., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2018). Embodied Cognition in der Lebensspanne. In U. Granacher, H. Mechling & C. Voelcker-Rehage (Eds.), Handbuch Bewegungs- und Sportgerontologie (pp. 460-466). Schorndorf: Hofmann.

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University, Department and External Professional Services (selection):

• Deputy Director of the Institute of Sport Science at the FSU Jena (since 2023)
• Faculty Board Member of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the FSU (since 2019; re-elected in 2022)
• Member of the teacher training committee of the FSU Jena (2019-2021)
• Institutional Board Member of the Institute of Sport Science at the FSU Jena (since 2016)
• Member (Deputy chair) of the examination committee of the Institute of Sport Science at the FSU Jena (since 2017)
• Founding Course Director for the B.Sc. "Performance & Health" (since 2019)
• Board of Trustees Member of the „Stiftung Jenaer Universitätssport“ (since 2020)
• Spokesperson/ Chair of the Division of Sport Psychology within the German Psychological Society (DGPs; since 2021; re-elected 2023)

Editorial Service:

• Associate Editor: Psychology of Sport and Exercise (since 06.2023)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Human Movement Science (since 09.2021)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Psychology of Sport and Exercise (since 02.2020)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sports Sciences (since 11.2019)
• Action Editor and member of the joint Editorial Board of Perception and i-Perception (2016-2021)
• Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Psychology: Performance Science (2016-2021) 
• Academic Editor and member of the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE (2013-2016)
• Associate Editor of the Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie (2015-2019)

Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer:

• Acta Psychologica
• Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
• British Journal of Psychology
• Cognition
• Current Directions in Psychological Science
• Ergonomics 
• Experimental Brain Research
• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport Psychology
• Frontiers in Performance Science
• Human Movement Science
• Infant Behavior and Development
• International Journal of Sport Psychology
• International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
• iScience
• Journal of Cognitive Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance
• Journal of Expertise
• Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Journal of Sports Sciences
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Learning and Individual Differences
• Medicine & Science in Sport & Exercise
• Nature Communications
• Perception
• Perceptual & Motor Skills
• PLoS ONE
• Psychological Research
• Psychology of Sport and Exercise
• Psychological Bulletin
• Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
• Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
• Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
• Scientific Reports
• Sports Engineering
• Sports Medicine
• Virtual Reality
• Vision Research
• Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie

Reviewer For Funding Agencies & Foundations:

• National Science Foundation (NSF; USA)
• Agence National de la Recherche (ANR; France)
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO; The Netherlands)
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF; Israel)
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; Germany)
• Federal Institute of Sports Science (BISp; Germany)
• German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Germany)

Memberships:

• Psychonomic Society
• North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activitiy (Naspspa)
• German Association of Sport Psychology (asp)
• German Association of Sport Science (dvs)
• German Psychological Society (DGPs)

Winter Term 2024/2025:

• Introduction to Motor Learning and Control (lecture series, P.E. & B.Sc., 1st year)
• Current Topics in Motor Control and Learning (seminar B.Sc., 2nd year)
• Psychological Factors and Human Performance (seminar B.Sc., 3rd year)
• Psychology of Motor Learning and Performance( seminar M.Sc., 1st year)
• Embodied Cognition in Sport (seminar M.Sc., 2nd year)
• Seminar: Thesis projects in Sport Psychology & Motor Learning and Control (seminar; Bachelor and Master thesis students)
• Research Colloquium of the Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport (PhD and Postdoc training)