In addition to the research programs described on the other webpages, we have authored a wide range of practice-oriented publications (e.g., Hossner, 1992, 2019), discussed possibilities for qualitative research within the field of movement and exercise science (Hossner, 1999), and initiated a large-scale qualitative study on technique training in elite sports and distilled it into a set of principles (Hossner, 1996). Furthermore, we commented quite early on the implementation of explicit and implicit control functions (Hossner & Weicker, 1999), proposed and tested a “nodal-point hypothesis” to explain internal vs. external attentional-focus effects (Hossner & Ehrlenspiel, 2010), and supervised a meta-analysis on sleep-dependent motor memory consolidation (Schmid et al., 2020). We have also contributed to scientific publications on discriminating throwing distances from point-light displays (Munzert et al., 2010), on direction detection thresholds of passive self-motion in female elite gymnasts (Maalouli-Hartmann et al., 2014), and on sleep problems in elite sports (Vorster et al., 2022). Various other individual findings are still awaiting publication, such as those on enhancing creativity in Argentine Tango, on altered time estimation and muscle tension as a function of clothing worn, or on differences in the length ratio of the index and ring fingers between athletes of different sports and performance levels (“2D4D ratio”; see photo). We anticipate, however, that our contribution to gummy-bear research—initiated by Joachim Funke and Heike Gerdes—which was presented in 1998 at the dvs Conference on Biomechanics, Motor Control, and Exercise Science, has a considerably lower chance of being accepted for publication (see video).
