Contributions

Books

Lindsay, R., Frank, C., McNeil, D., & Spittle, M. (in press). The Psychology of Mental Imagery in Movement and Action. Routledge. link

Book Chapters

Frank, C. (2024). Virtuelle Realität: Die Zukunft des individualisierten Lehrens und Lernens von Bewegung? In C. Englert, I. Pfeffer, C. Vater, & K. Staufenbiel (Hrsg.), Sportpsychologie. Grundlagen und Trends (pp. 183-199). Tübingen: UKV. link

Frank, C. & Schack, T. (2022). Teaching closed self-paced motor tasks in Virtual Reality. In R. Lidor & G. Ziv (Eds.), The Psychology of Closed Self-Paced Motor Tasks in Sports (pp. 146-159). New York: Routledge. (doi: 10.4324/9781003148425) (link) 

Frank, C. (2020). Virtual Reality and mental training. In M. Bertollo, E. Filho, & P. Terry (Eds.), Advancements in Mental Skills Training (pp. 177-186). Oxon, New York: Routledge. (doi: 10.4324/9780429025112) (link)

Frank, C., Wright, D. J., & Holmes, P. S. (2020). Mental simulation and neurocognition: Advances for motor imagery and action observation training in sport. In D. Hackfort & R. J. Schinke (Eds.), Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Volume 2: Applied and Practical Measures (pp. 411-428). Oxon, New York: Routledge. (link)

Schack, T., & Frank, C. (2019). Ideomotor training. In D. Hackfort, R. Schinke, & B. Strauss (Eds.), Dictionary of Sport Psychology: Sport, Exercise, and Performing Arts (pp. 138-139).

Frank, C. (2016). Learning a motor action from within: Insights into perceptual-cognitive changes with mental and physical practice. In M. Raab, P. Wylleman, R. Seiler, A.-M. Elbe, & A. Hatzigeorgiadis, Sport and exercise psychology research from theory to practice (S. 91-121). Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128036341. (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803634-1.00005-4) link

Simonsmeier, B. A. , & Frank, C. (2016). Imagery in gymnastics: Theories and empirical findings. In T. Heinen, I. Čuk, R. Goebel, & K. Velentzas (Eds.), Gymnastics Performance and Motor Learning: Principles and Applications (pp. 53-69). NOVA. ISBN: 9781634857376

Journal Publications

Chye, S., Chembila Valappil, A., Knight, R., Greene, A., Shearer, D. A., Frank, C., Diss, C., & Bruton, A. (2025). Does model type influence the effectiveness of combined action observation and motor imagery training for novices learning an Ankle Pick takedown? Frontiers in Psychology, 16. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1596660) link (link to OSF preprint)

Schütz, C., & Frank, C. (2025). Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children. Cognitive Development, 74, 101588. (doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101588) link

Linnhoff, D., Kaiser, R., Mattes, K., & Frank, C. (2025, online). Cognitive representation of gait: Differences in memory structures between individuals after total knee arthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty. Cognitive Processing, 26, 423-433. (dot: 10.1007/s10339-024-01255-4) (link) 

Schütz, C., & Frank, C. (2024). Data for “Hysteresis in posture selection in preschool children” [Data set]. Universität Bielefeld. (doi: 10.4119/unibi/2999360) link

Wright, D., Matthew, S., Kraeutner, S., Barhoun, P., Bertollo, M., Campbell, M., Waltzing, … & Holmes, P. (2024). An international estimate of the prevalence of differing visual imagery abilities. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1454107) (link) (link to SSRN)

Frank, C., Guillot, A., & Vogt, S. (2024). Special issue on the Neurocognitive Mechanisms of imagery and imagery practice of motor actions. Psychological Research, 88, 6. [Special Issue] (link)

Frank, C., Guillot, A., & Vogt, S. (2024). Imagery and motor learning: A special issue on the neurocognitive mechanisms of imagery and imagery practice of motor actions. Psychological Research, 88, 1785-1789. (doi: 10.1007/s00426-024-01982-5) (link)

Frank, C., Kraeutner, S., Rieger, M., & Boe, S. (2024). Learning motor actions via imagery – perceptual or motor learning? Psychological Research, 88, 1820-1832. (doi: 0.1007/s00426-022-01787-4) (link) (published online 2023)

Bach, P., Frank, C., & Kunde, W. (2024). Why motor imagery isn’t really motoric: Towards a reconceptualization in terms of effect-based action control. Psychological Research, 88, 1790-1804. (doi: 10.1007/s00426-022-01773-w) (link) (link to OSF preprint) (published online 2022)

Chye, S., Chembila-Valappil, A., Knight, R., Shearer, D., Frank, C., Diss, C., & Bruton, A. (2024). Action observation perspective influences the effectiveness of combined action observation and motor imagery training for novices learning an Osoto Gari throw. Scientific Reports, 14, 19990. (doi: 10.31234/osf.io/nraux) (link) (link to PsyArXiv)

Hardwick, R., Moreno-Verdú, M., Hamoline, G., Van Caenegem, E. E., Waltzing, B. M., Forest, S., … & Wright, D. (2024). Guidelines for Reporting Action Simulation Studies (GRASS): Proposals to improve reporting of research in Motor Imagery and Action Observation. Neuropsychologia, 192, 108733. (doi: 10.31234/osf.io/9vywr) (link) (link to PsyArXiv)

Wang, K. – P., Frank, C., Hung, T. – M., & Schack, T. (2023). Neurofeedback training: Decreases in Mu rhythm lead to improved motor performance in complex visuomotor skills. Current Psychology, 42, 20860-20871. (doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-03190-z) (link) (published online 2022)

d’Aquino, A., Frank, C., Hagan, J. E., & Schack, T. (2023, online). Eye movements during motor imagery and execution reveal different visuomotor control strategies in manual interception. Psychophysiology, 60, e14401. (doi: 10.1111/psyp.14401) (link)

Frank, C., Hülsmann, F., Waltemate, T., Wright, D., Eaves, D., Bruton, A., Botsch, M., & Schack, T. (2023). Motor imagery during action observation in virtual reality: The impact of watching myself performing at a level I have not yet achieved. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 21, 401-427. (doi: 10.1080/1612197X.2022.2057570) (link) (published online 2022)

Frank, C., Klüver, J., & Simonsmeier, B. (2023). Imagery training of motor actions in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 17, 1356-1377. (doi: 10.1080/1750984X.2023.2167225) (link)

Kim, T., Frank, C., & Schack, T. (2022). The effect of different schedules of action observation training and motor imagery training on the changes in mental representation structure and skill performance. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 53(3), 193-217. (doi: 10.7352/IJSP.2022.53.193) link

Chye, S., Valappil, A. C.., Wright, D. J., Frank, C., Shearer, D. A., Tyler, C. J., Diss, C. E., Mian, O. S., Tillin, N. A., & Bruton, A. M. (2022). The effects of combined action observation and motor imagery on corticospinal excitability and movement outcomes: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 143, 104911. (doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104911) (link) (link to bioRxiv preprint)

d’Aquino, A., Frank, C., Hagan, J. E., & Schack, T. (2022). Imagining interceptions: Eye movements as an online indicator of covert processes during motor imagery. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 940772. (doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.940772) (link)

Wright, D., Frank, C., & Bruton, A. (2022). Recommendations for combining action observation and motor imagery interventions in sport. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 13, 155-167. (doi: 10.1080/21520704.2021.1971810) (link) (published online 2021)

Guillot, A., Di Rienzo, F., Frank, C., Debarnot, U., & MacIntyre, T. (2021). From simulation to motor execution: a review of the impact of dynamic motor imagery on performance. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 17, 420-439. (doi: 10.1080/1750984X.2021.2007539) (link)

Frank, C., Bekemeier, K., & Menze-Sonneck, A. (2021). Imagery training in school-based physical education improves the performance and the mental representation of a complex action in comprehensive school students. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 56, 101972. (doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101972) (link)

Schack, T., & Frank, C. (2021). Mental representation and the cognitive architecture of skilled action. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 527-546. (doi: 10.1007/s13164-020-00485-7) (Invited contribution to the Special Issue Skilled Action, Mylopoulos and Pacherie) (link) (published online 2020)

Toth, A., Frank, C., Putrino, D., & Campbell, M. (2021). Editorial: Progress in computer gaming and Esports: Neurocognitive and motor perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 686152. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686152) (link)

Wang, K.-P., Frank, C., Tsai, Y.-y., Lin, K.-H., Chen, T.-T., Cheng, M.-Y., Huang, C.-J., Hung, T.-M., & Schack, T. (2021). Superior performance in skilled golfers characterized by dynamic neuromotor processes related to attentional focus. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 633228. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633228) (link)

Simonsmeier, B., Andronie, M., Buecker, S., & Frank, C. (2021). The effects of imagery interventions in sports: A meta-analysis. International Reviews of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 14, 186-207. (doi: 10.1080/1750984X.2020.1780627) (link) (published online 2020)

Kim, T., Frank, C., & Schack, T. (2020). The effect of alternate training of action observation and motor imagery on cognitive and skill performance. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 51, 101-121. (doi: 10.7352/IJSP.2020.51.101) link

Meier, C., Frank, C., Groeben, B., & Schack, T. (2020). Verbal instructions and motor learning: How analogy and explicit instructions influence the development of mental representations and tennis serve performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00002) (link)

Menze-Sonneck, A., Bekemeier, K., & Frank, C. (2019). Stell dir vor! Vorstellungstraining im Sportunterricht der Sekundarstufe II. sportunterricht, 68, 301-305. (link)

Menze-Sonneck, A., Bekemeier, K., & Frank, C. (2019). Ein Unterrichtsvorhaben zur Einbindung des Vorstellungstrainings in der gymnasialen Oberstufe am Beispiel des Hüftaufschwungs. sportunterricht, 68, 313-318. (link)

Hülsmann, F.*, Frank, C.*, Senna, I.* (* shared first authorship), Ernst, M., Schack, T., & Botsch, M. (2019). Superimposed skilled performance in a virtual mirror improves motor performance and cognitive representation of a full body motor action. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, 6, 43. (doi: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00043)(link)

Wright, D., Wood, G., Eaves, D., Bruton, A., Frank, C., Franklin, Z. (2018). Corticospinal excitability is facilitated by combined action observation and motor imagery of a basketball free throw. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 39, 114-121. (doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2018.08.006) (link)

* Frank, C., Kim, T., & Schack, T. (2018). Observational practice promotes action-related order-formation in long-term memory: Investigating action observation and the development of cognitive representation in complex motor action. Journal of Motor Learning and Development. (doi: 10.1123/jmld.2017-0007) (Invited contribution to Special Section on ‘Observation and Learning‘, Ste-Marie) (link)

Simonsmeier, B. A., Frank, C., Gubelmann, H., & Schneider, M. (2018). The effects of motor imagery training on performance and mental representation of 7- to 15-year-old gymnasts of different levels of expertise. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 7, 155-168. (doi: 10.1037/spy0000117) (link)

Frank, C., Linstromberg, G.-L., Hennig, L., Heinen, T., & Schack, T. (2018). Team action imagery: Imagery of game situations and required team actions promotes a functional structure in players’ representations of team-level tactics. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 40, 20-30. (doi: 10.1123/jsep.2017-0088) (link)

Kim, T., Frank, C., & Schack, T. (2017). A systematic investigation of the effect of action observation training and motor imagery training on the development of mental representation structure and skill performance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11,499. (doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00499) (link)

Frank, C. & Schack, T. (2017). The representation of (inter)action, states of action, and learning: Three perspectives on learning by way of imagery and execution. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 678 (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00678) (Invited contribution to Special Issue on ‚Representations in the Brain‘, Roy) (link)

Frank, C., & Schack, T. (2016). In my mind’s (quiet) eye: A perceptual-cognitive approach to the Quiet Eye ‑ comment on Vickers. Current Issues in Sport Science, 1:107. (doi: 10.15203/CISS_2016.107) (Contribution to Special Issue on the Quiet Eye, Vickers/ Hossner) (link)

Frank, C., Land, W. M., & Schack, T. (2016). Perceptual-cognitive changes during motor learning: The influence of mental and physical practice on mental representation, gaze behavior, and performance of a complex action. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1981. (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01981) (link)

Hülsmann, F., Frank, C., Schack, T., Kopp, S., & Botsch, M. (2016). Multi-level analysis of motor actions as a basis for effective coaching in virtual reality. In P. Chung, A. Soltoggio, C. W. Dawson, Q. Meng, & M. Pain (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (ISCSS) September 9th to 11th in Loughborough, United Kingdom (pp. 211-214). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 392. Heidelberg: Springer. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24560-7)

Frank, C., Land, W. M., Popp, C., & Schack, T. (2014). Mental representation and mental practice: Experimental investigation on the functional links between motor memory and motor imagery. PLoS ONE, 9(4), e95175. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095175) (link)

Schack, T., Essig, K., Frank, C., & Koester, D. (2014). Mental representation and motor imagery training. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 328. (doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00328) (link)

Land, W. M., Frank, C., & Schack, T. (2014). The influence of attentional focus on the development of skill representation in a complex action. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15, 30-38. (doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2013.09.006) (link)

Frank, C., Land, W. M., & Schack, T. (2013). Mental representation and learning: The influence of practice on the development of mental representation structure in complex action. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 14, 353-361. (doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2012.12.001) (link)

Press

Nr. 110 / 2021
17. Dezember 2021
Bewegung in virtueller Realität reflektieren – Studierende der Universität Osnabrück untersuchen neue Lehr- und Lernkonzepte für den Sportunterricht

Nr. 171 / 2020
11. November 2020
Kraft der Gedanken: Schon die Vorstellung an Bewegung kann die motorische Leistung verbessern – Osnabrücker Sportwissenschaftlerin forscht über mentales Training