Prof. Dr. Ernst-Joachim Hossner
Ernst-Joachim Hossner is Professor of Movement and Sport Science at the University of Bern in Switzerland, holds the Chair of Movement and Sport Science and is currently Director of the Institute of Sport Science. He received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin and habilitated at the University of Heidelberg with theses on human motor control and learning, in particular on modular control architectures and effect-related motor control. His areas of interest are functional mechanisms of human motor control and learning with a particular focus on the perception-action coupling and the handling of sensorimotor uncertainty.
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University Profile (incl. Bibliography)
Selected Publications
Beck, D., Hossner, E.-J., & Zahno, S. (2025). Exploiting prior knowledge in continuous decision-making under uncertainty: the case of tennis experts. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7154501/v1
Magnaguagno, L., Zahno, S., & Hossner, E.-J. (2025). The information gain of explicitly provided over self-generated contextual knowledge for behavioral control. PLoS ONE, 20(2), e0318994–e0318994. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318994
Hossner, E.-J., & Zahno, S. (2022). Beyond task-space exploration: On the role of variance for motor control and learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935273
Magnaguagno, L., Zahno, S., Kredel, R., & Hossner, E.-J. (2022). Contextual information in situations of uncertainty: The value of explicit-information provision depends on expertise level, knowledge acquisition and prior-action congruency. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 59, 102109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.102109
Zahno, S., & Hossner, E.-J. (2020). On the Issue of Developing Creative Players in Team Sports: A Systematic Review and Critique From a Functional Perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575475