Lena Hagenfeld (Slupinski) Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences Horstmarer Landweg 62b D-48149 Münster Phone: +49 (0) 251/83 38422 Fax.: +49 (0) 251/83 34872 Email: lena.slupinski@uni-muenster.de → Website

Joined OCC in 2015

Research Project

Kinematic analysis of goal-directed movements in ball catching

Intercepting a moving object, for example when catching a ball, poses a challenge for the catcher, because the final interception point is not a fixed, predefined position. In order to intercept the ball successfully, the catcher has to guide the hand based on temporal and spatial estimations of future positions by judging the position, velocity and gravitational acceleration of the ball (López-Moliner et. al., 2010).
The question, how the catcher guides the hand in order to intercept an object, is explained by different control strategies. Most prominent in this field are the concepts of predictive and prospective control. Predictive control assumes, that movements are pre-programmed before executed, while prospective control asserts that movement planning is up-dated continuously (Dessing et. al., 2005).
My research focuses on an analysis of goal-directed movements in ball catching, with the aim to assess movement planning under under changing sensori-motor conditions. Therefore I use primarily kinematics to calculate and analyze movement executions.

PhD Committee

Prof. Dr. Heiko Wagner
Dr. Marc de Lussanet
Prof. Dr. Karen Zentgraf

Mühlbeier Andreas, Boström Kim Joris, Kalthoff Wolfram, de Lussanet de la Sablonière, Marc H E u. a. 2018. ‘Neck muscle responses of driver and front seat passenger during frontal-oblique collisions.’ PLoS One 13, Nr. 12: 1-20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209753.

Jörges Björn, Hagenfeld Lena, López-Moliner Joan. 2018. ‘The use of visual cues in gravity judgements on parabolic motion.’ Vision Research 149. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.06.002.

Slupinski Lena, de Lussanet de la Sablonière MHE, Wagner Heiko. 2017. ‘Analyzing the kinematics of hand movements in catching tasks—An online correction analysis of movement toward the target’s trajectory.’ Behavior Research Methods 2018, Nr. 50: 2316-2324. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0995-2.

Dirksen T, de Lussanet de la Sablonière MHE, Zentgraf K, Slupinski L, Wagner H. 2016. ‘Increased throwing accuracy improves children’s catching performance in a ball-catching task from the movement assessment battery (MABC-2).’ Frontiers in Psychology - Movement Science and Sport Psychology 7, Nr. 1122. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01122.

Slupinski Lena, de Lussanet de la Sablonière Marc H E, Wagner Heiko. „Quantifying the kinematics of hand movements towards a flying ball.“ contributed to the Neural Control of Movement, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2016.

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