Johannes Keck

• Since 2024: Research Associate in the Department of Movement Science and Sport Psychology, Institute of Sports Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2020-2024: Research Associate in the Department of Movement Science and Sport Psychology, Institute of Sports Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen
• Since 2020: PhD Student, Faculty 06, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Topic: Understanding (E)Motion: The Link between Movement Features, Bodily States and Neural Correlates
• 2019-2020: Student Assistant in the Department of Movement Science and Sport Psychology, Institute of Sports Science, Giessen
• 2018-2020: Student Assistant in the Department of Experimental Sensorimotor Research, Institute of Sports Science, Giessen
• 2018-2020: Master of Science in Biomechanics-Motor Control-Movement Analysis, Giessen
• 2015-2017: Tutor at the Department of Health, Fulda
• 2014-2018: Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy

Research focuses and interests:

• Action Simulation / Embodied Simulation / Motor Resonance
• Action Observation
• Neural Correlates of Movement Perception
• Social Interactions
• Emotion and Motor Skills
• Blood-based Biomarkers in Sport and Perception

Peer-Review Articles:

• Keck, J., Honekamp, C., Gebhardt, K., Nolte, S., Linka, M., de Haas, B., Munzert, J., Krüger, K., Krüger, B. (2024). Exercise-induced inflammation alters the perception and visual exploration of Emotional Interactions. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health. In Press.
• Hacker, S., Keck, J., Reichel, T., Eder, K., Ringseis, R., Krüger, K., Krüger, B. (2023). Biomarkers in Endurance Exercise: Individualized Regulation and Predictive Value. Translational Sports Medicine, 2023, 6614990. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6614990External link
• Preißler, L., Keck, J., Krüger, B., Munzert, J., Schwarzer, G. (2023). Recognition of emotional body language from dyadic and monadic point-light displays in 5-year-old children and adults. J Exp Child Psychol. 2023 Nov;235:105713. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105713. Epub 2023 Jun 16. PMID: 37331307.
• Keck, J., Zabicki, A., Bachmann, J., Munzert, J., Krüger, B. (2022). Decoding spatiotemporal features of emotional body language in social interactions. Sci Rep. 2022 Sep 5;12(1):15088. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-19267-5. PMID: 36064559; PMCID: PMC9445068.
• Bachmann, J., Krüger, B., Keck, J., Munzert, J., Zabicki, A. (2022). When the timing is right: The link between temporal coupling in dyadic interactions and emotion recognition. Cognition. 2022 Dec;229:105267. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105267. Epub 2022 Sep 1. PMID: 36058018.

Software:

• Zabicki, A., & Keck, J. (2021). SAMI: Similarity Analysis of Human Movements and Interactions (v0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4764552External link

Presentations:

• Keck, J., Bachmann, J., Munzert, J. & Krüger, B. How Movement Similarities influence the perception of emotional body language, Toronto, Canada.
• Keck, J., Hacker, S., Reichel, T., Krüger, K. & Krüger, B. Machine Learning Based Classification of biomarker regulation and their predictive value after endurance exercise, Hamburg, Germany.

Posters:

• Keck, J., Bachmann, J., Munzert, J. & Krüger, B. My Motion and Your (E)Motion Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior Day, Giessen, Germany.

• Organization of hackathons https://nemohack.gitlab.ioExternal link

Memberships

• Member of the International Research Trainee Group (IRTG 1901 – The Brain in Action)
• Center for Mind, Brain & Behavior (CMBB; Research Campus Mittelhessen)
• North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA)