Dr. Laura Sperl

• Time Perception
• The Multilingual Mind
• Motor Skill Change & Automatization
• Inhibition & Intererence
• Cognition, Language & Motor Performance

since 2022: Lecturer, Department of General Psychology: Judgement, Decision Making, Action, FernUniversität Hagen

2021: PhD (Dr. phil.) „Challenges in motor skill change. Unraveling behavioral, cognitive and electrophysiological correlates of proactive interference” (2021)

2020 - 2021: Research Staff/Scholarship Holder, Department for General Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

2017 - 2020: Research Staff and Doctoral Candidate, Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

2013 – 2016: Master of Science in Cognitive Psychology and Neurosciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

2014 – 2015: Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

2010 – 2013: Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• Ghavam Rankohi, Z., Liepelt, R., Luchterhand-Dehn, J. & Sperl, L. (2024). Embodied cognition in native and foreign language – Evidence from a typing task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2024.2426579
• Sperl, L. & Liepelt, R. (2024). Human Perception of Altered Video Speed. Timing & Time Perception. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10116
• Dietrich, A., Liepelt, R. & Sperl, L. (2024). Die Wissenschaftsautor*innen Ihres Vertrauens - Über die Hürden von Wissenschaftskommunikation. Das In-Mind Magazin, 2. https://de.in-mind.org/article/die-wissenschaftsautorinnen-ihres-vertrauens-ueber-die-huerden-von
• Sperl, L., Nicanço Tomé, M. S., Kühn, H., Kreysa, H. (2024). Context Matters: How Experimental Language and Language Environment Affect Mental Representations in Multilingualism. Languages 9(3), 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030106
• Sperl, L., Schroeger, A., Kaufmann, J. M., & Kreysa, H. (2024). Mental representation of words and concepts in late multilingualism: A replication and extension of the Revised Hierarchical Model. The Mental Lexicon, 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.23018.spe
• Sperl, L.*, Breier, C. M.*, Grießbach, E. & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Do typing skills matter? Investigating university students' typing speed and performance in online exams. Higher Education Research & Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2287724; *shared first authorship
• Hüttner, N.*, Sperl, L.*, & Schroeger, A. (2023). Slow motion bias: Exploring the relation between time overestimation and increased perceived intentionality. Perception, 52(2), 77-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066221139943; *shared first authorship
• Sperl, L., Ruttloff, J. M., Ambrus, G. G., Kaufmann, J. M., Cañal-Bruland, R., Schweinberger, S. R. (2021). Effects of motor restrictions on preparatory brain activity. Experimental Brain Research, 239(11), 3189–3203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06190-w
• Sperl, L., Ambrus, G.G., Kaufmann, J.M., Schweinberger, S.R., Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). Electrophysiological correlates underlying interference control. Biological Psychology, 163, 108138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108138
• Sperl, L., Gergeleit, T. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2021). On the role of different subdimensions of inhibition for successful motor skill change. Human Movement Science, 77, 102801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2021.102801
• Sperl, L., Hüttner, N. & Schröger, A. (2021). Why do actions in slow motion videos appear to last longer? On the effect of misconceiving video speed. Perception, 50(1), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0301006620982212
• Sperl, L., & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Interindividual differences in the capability to change automatized movement patterns. Acta Psychologica, 204, 103027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103027
• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Reducing proactive interference in motor tasks. Journal of Motor Behavior, 52, 372-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2019.1635984

Book Chapters

• Sperl, L. & Cañal-Bruland, R. (2020). Changing automatized movement patterns. In N. J. Hodges & A. M. Williams (Eds.), Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (3rd edition) (pp. 20-38). London: Routledge.

Other Publications

• Sperl, L. (2020). Zur Rolle von proaktiver Interferenz bei motorischen Umstellungsaufgaben. Jenaer Beiträge zum Sport, 23,
• Sperl, L. (2018). Die Macht der Gewohnheit – Herausforderungen beim motorischen Umlernen. Jenaer Beiträge zum Sport, 22, 18-20.
• Sperl, L. (2017). Directed Forgetting – Ein Schlüssel zum erfolgreichen motorischen Umlernen? Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 24(4), 168.

• ​​​​​​2023: Internal travel grant for a research stay at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Psychology of the FernUniversität Hagen
• 2023: Dissertation prize (3rd place) of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Division of General Psychology
• 2021: Career advancement scholarship for female post-docs, Graduate Academy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2020: PhD Scholarship, Graduate Academy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2019: Internal research grant for interdisciplinary projects and networks, Graduate Academy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2019: ProChance travel grant for participation at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Montreal (Canada), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
• 2018: Best Graduate Award M.Sc. of Psychology

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• Empirical-experimental internships for psychology students
• Supervision of Bachelor’s and Master‘s theses
• Seminars for psychology students

Research stays:

• 2024: Visiting researcher at the University of Sydney/Australia

Reviewer for scientific peer-reviewed journals:

• Human Movement Science
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• Cognitive Processing