Dr. Stephan Zahno

Stephan Zahno is a postdoctoral researcher in Movement Science at the University of Bern’s Institute of Sport Science. He obtained his PhD at the University of Bern in 2022, where his research focused on the role of sensorimotor skills in performing creative actions in sports. Stephan's research interests encompass motor control and learning, with a particular emphasis on understanding functional mechanisms of the sensorimotor system to handle sensory and motor uncertainties in complex tasks.

 

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Selected Publications

Beck, D., Hossner, E. J., & Zahno, S. (2026). Exploiting prior
knowledge in continuous decision-making under uncertainty: the case of
tennis experts. Experimental Brain Research, 244(5), 92.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-026-07288-9

Zahno, S., Beck, D., Hossner, E.-J., & Körding, K. (2026). Humans
can learn bimodal priors in complex sensorimotor behaviour. Proceedings of
the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 293(2066).
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2296

Beck, D., Zahno, S., Kredel, R., & Hossner, E.-J. (2025). From
simple lab tasks to the virtual court: Bayesian integration in tennis.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(1). https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00434.2024

Zahno, S., Beck, D., Kredel, R., Klostermann, A., & Hossner, E.-J.
(2025). Risk optimization during ongoing movement: Insights from movement
and gaze behavior in throwing. Journal of Neurophysiology, 134(1).
https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00606.2024

Zahno, S. (2024). Creativity in sports: The crucial role of motor
skills. Journal of Creativity, 34(3),
100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2024.100091