2012
In Press
Jansen, P., Schmelter, A., Quaiser-Pohl, C., Neuburger, S., & Heil, M. (in press). Mental rotation performance in primary school age children: Are there gender differences in chronometric tests? Cognitive Development.
2012
Blüchel, M., Lehmann, J., Kellner, J., & Jansen, P. (2012). The improvement in mental rotation performance in primary school-aged children after a two-week motor-training. Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2012.707612
Heil, M., Jansen, P., Quaiser-Pohl, C., & Neuburger, S. (2012). Gender-specific effects of artificially induced gender beliefs in mental rotation. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 350-353.
Jansen, P. (2012). Implicit body memory. In: Koch, S.C., Fuchs, T., Summa, M., & Müller, C. (Eds.). Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, (pp. 115-120). Amsterdam: Benjamins Publishing Company.
Jansen, P., & Dahmen-Zimmer, K. (2012). Effects of cognitive, motor, and Karate Training on cognitive functioning and emotional well-being of elderly people. Frontiers in Movement Science and Sport Psychology, 3, 40.
Jansen, P., Lehmann, J., & van Doren, J. (in press). Mental rotation performance in male soccer player.PlosONE, 7 (10), 348620.
Lehmann, J., & Jansen, P. (2012). The influence of juggling on mental rotation performance in children with spina bifida. Brain and Cognition, 80, 223-229.
Neuburger, S.,Heuser, V, Jansen, P., & Quaiser-Pohl, C. (2012). Influence of the rotational axis and gender stereotyped nature of rotation stimuli on the mental rotation performacne if male and female fifth graders. In: C. Stachniss, K. Schill, & D. Utall (Eds). Spatial cognition VIII (pp. 220-229). Heidlberg: Springer.
Neuburger, S.,Jansen, P., Heil, M., & Quaiser-Pohl, C. (2012). A threat in the classroom: Gender stereotype activation and mental-rotation performance in elementary-school children. Journal of Psychology, 220, 61-69.
Pelkofer, J., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (in press). Lateralization of ERPs effects during mental rotation of polygons. Neuroreport, 23, 583-589.
Pietsch, S., & Jansen, P. (2012). Different mental rotation performance in students of music, sports and education science. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 159-163.
Pietsch, S., & Jansen, P. (2012). The relationship between coordination skill and mental rotation ability. In: C. Stachniss, K. Schill, D. Utall (Eds.). Spatial cognition VIII (pp. 173-181). Heidelberg: Springer.
2011-2009
2011
Heil, M., Kavsec, M., Rolke, B., Beste, Ch., & Jansen, P. (2011). Mental rotation in female fraternal twins: Evidence for inter-uterine Transfers? Biological Psychology, 86, 90-93.
Jansen, P., Lange, L.F., & Heil, M. (2011).The influence on juggling on mental rotation performance in children. Physical Education and Sport, 55,103-108.
Jansen, P., Schmelter, A, Kasten, L., & Heil, M.. (2011). Impaired mental rotation performance in overweight children. Appetite, 56, 766-769.
Neuburger, S., Jansen, P., Heil, M., & Quaiser-Pohl, C. (2011). Gender differences in pre-adolescents‘ mental rotation performance: do they depend on grade and stimuli? Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 1238-1242.
Rieder, C., & Jansen, P. (2011). No neuropsychological consequences in male and female soccer players after short heading training. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 26, 583-591.
Titze, C., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2011). Single-sex school girls outperform girls attending a co-educative school in mental rotation accuracy. Sex Roles, 65, 704-711.
2010
Gruber, H., Jansen, P., Marienhagen, J. & Altenmüller, E. (2010). Adaptations during the acquisition of expertise. Talent Develompent and Excellence, 2, 3-15.
Hahn, N., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2010). Preschooler’s mental rotation of letters: Sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 261-267.
Hahn, N., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2010). Preschooler’s mental rotation: Sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1244-1250.
Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2010). Gender differences in the mental rotation across adulthood. Experimental Aging Research, 36, 94-104.
Jansen, P. & Heil, M. (2010). The relation between motor development and mental rotation ability in 5-6 years old children. European Journal of Developmental Science, 4, 66-74.
Jansen, P., Lehmann, J. & Heil, M. (2010). Macht Bewegung schlau? Über den Einfluss von Bewegung auf die kognitiven Fähigkeiten. In Mind, 4.
Jansen, P., Schmelter, A., & Heil, M. (2010). Wayfinding performance and spatial knowledge acquisition in younger and older adults: A study in a virtual environment. Experimental Psychology, 54-60.
Jansen, P. & Pietsch, S. (2010). Physical Activity improves mental rotation performance. Creative Education, 158-61.
Jansen, P., Wiedenbauer, G., & Hahn, N. (2010). Manual rotation training improves direction estimations in a virtual environment. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22, 6-17.
Lange, L. F., Heil, M., & Jansen, P. (2010). Does children’s left hemisphere lateralization during mental rotation depend upon the stimulus material? Journal of Individual Differences, 31, 91-94.
Titze, C., Heil, M., & Jansen, P. (2010). Pairwise Presentation of Cube Figures Does Not Reduce Gender Differences in Mental Rotation Performance. Journal of Individual Differences, 31, 101-105.
Titze, C., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2010). Mental rotation performance and the effect of gender in 4th graders and adults. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7, 432-444.
Titze, C., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2010). Mental rotation performance in fourth graders: No effects of gender beliefs (yet?). Learning and Individual Differences, 20, 459-463.
2009
Jansen, P. (2009). The dissociation of small and large-scale abilities in school-aged children. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 109, 357-361.
Jansen, P. & Pietsch, S. (2009). Schon drei Monate Jonglieren verändern. Sportpädagogik, 6, 39-41.
Jansen, P., Titze, C., & Heil, M. (2009). The influence of juggling on mental rotation performance. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 40, 351-359.
Schmelter, A., Jansen, P., & Heil, M. (2009). Empirical evaluation of virtual environment technology as an experimental tool in developmental spatial cognition research. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 724-739.
2008-2005
2008
Buchner, A. & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2008). Is route learning more than serial learning? Spatial Cognition and Computation, 8, 289-305.
Heil, M. & Jansen, P. (2008). Aspects of code-specific memory development. Current Psychology, 27, 162-168.
Heil, M., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2008a). Gender differences in mathematical performance and mental rotation in 8 years old boys and girls. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 195-201.
Heil, M. & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2008b). Gender differences in mental rotation with polygons of different complexity: Do men utilize holistic processes whereas women prefer piecemeal ones?. The Quarterly Journal of Psychology, 61, 683-689.
Jansen, P. (2008). Die künstlerischen Therapien im Zeitalter der Neurowissenschaften. Musik-, Tanz- und Kunsttherapie, 19, 1-10.
Jansen-Osmann, P. (2008). Der Einfluss der Neurowissenschaften auf die Sportwissenschaft. Sportwissenschaft, 38, 24-35.
Jansen-Osmann, P., Wiedenbauer, G. & Heil, M (2008). Does spatial cognition depend on motor development? Perceptual and Motor Skills, 106, 436-446.
Orgs, G., Dombrowski, J.-H., Heil, M., & Jansen, P. (in press). Latent movement imitation in professional dancers and non-dancers: Motor expertise modulates alpha-ERD. European Jorunal of Neuroscience, 27, 3380-3384.
Titze, C., Heil, M., & Jansen, P. (2008). Gender differences in the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) are not due to task complexity. Journal of Individual Differences, 29, 130- 133.
Wiedenbauer, G., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2008). Manual training of mental rotation in children. Learning and Instruction, 18, 30-41.
2007
Heil, M., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2007). Children’s left hemispheric activation during mental rotation is reliable as well as specific. Cognitive Development, 20, 280-288.
Jansen-Osmann, P. (2007b). Use of virtual environments to investigate the spatial behavior and knowledge of school age children. Psychological Reports, 100, 675-690.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Heil, M. (2007a). Developmental aspects of the laterality of ERP effects during mental rotation. NeuroReport,18,175-178.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Heil, M. (2007b). Are children experts in spatial associate learning? Experimental Psychology, 54, 236-242.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Heil, M. (2007c). Acquisition of spatial knowledge in a round world. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3, 389-397.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Heil, M. (2007d). Suitable stimuli to obtain (no) gender differences in the speed of cognitive processes involved in mental rotation. Brain and Cognition, 64, 217-227.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Heil, M. (2007e). Maintaining readiness for mental rotation interferes with perceptual processes in children but with response selection in adults. Acta Psychologica, 126, 155-168.
Jansen-Osmann, P., Schmid, J., & Heil, M. (2007a). Wayfinding and spatial knowledge acquisition of adults and children in a virtual environment: The role of the environmental structure. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 66, 41-50.
Jansen-Osmann, P., Schmid, J., & Heil, M.(2007b). Spatial knowledge acquisition of adults and children in a virtual environment: The role of the environmental structure. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 251-272.
Jansen-Osmann, P., Wiedenbauer, G., Schmid, J., & Heil, M. (2007). The role of landmarks and structural maps regarding the wayfinding performance and spatial knowledge in adults and children. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 7, 267-285.
Wiedenbauer, G., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2007). Mental rotation ability of children with spina bifida: What influence does manual rotation training have? Developmental Neuropsychology, 32, 809-824.
Wiedenbauer, G., Schmid, J., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2007). Manual training of mental rotation. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19, 17-36.
2006
Jansen-Osmann, P. (2006b). Der Mozart-Effekt – Eine wissenschaftliche Legende? Musik-, Tanz- und Kunsttherapie, 17, 1-10.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Fuchs, P. (2006). Wayfinding behavior and spatial knowledge of adults and children in a virtual environment: The role of different kinds of landmarks. Experimental Psychology, 53, 171-181.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Heil, M. (2006b). Violation of pure insertion during mental rotation is independent of stimulus quality and subjects' age. Acta Psychologica, 122, 280-287.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Wiedenbauer, G. (2006). The influence of turns on distance cognition: further investigations to clarify the route-angularity effect. Psychological Research, 70, 43-51.
Wiedenbauer, G., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2006a). Spatial knowledge of children with spina bifida in a virtual large scale space. Brain and Cognition, 62, 120-127.
Wiedenbauer, G., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2006b). Die räumlich-kognitiven Fähigkeiten von Kindern mit spina bifida. Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, 17, 149-154.
2005
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Berendt, B. (2005). What makes a route appear longer? An experimental and computational perspective on features, route segmentation, and distance Knowledge. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58 A, 1390-1414.
Jansen-Osmann, P., Richter, St., Schinauer, T., Fuchs, P., & Kalveram, K. Th. (2005). Adaptation to separate kinematic and dynamic transformations in children and adults. Motor Control, 9, 197-212.
Kalveram, K.-Th, Schinauer, Th., Beirle, St., Richter, S., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (2005). Threading neural feedforward into a mechanical spring: how biology exploits physics in limb control. Biological Cybernetics, 92, 229-240.
2004-1998
2004
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Wiedenbauer, G. (2004a). The influence of turns on distance cognition: new experimental approaches to clarify the route-angularity effect. Environment & Behavior, 36, 790-813.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Wiedenbauer, G. (2004b). The representation of landmarks and routes in children and adults. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 24, 347-357.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Wiedenbauer, G. (2004c). The wayfinding ability and spatial knowledge of adults and children in a colour coded building. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4, 337-358.
Richter, St., Jansen-Osmann, P., Konczak, J., & Kalveram, K. (2004). The influence of task context on selecting appropriate inverse dynamic models for the control of goal-directed arm movements. Psychological Research, 68, 245-251.
2003
Konczak, J., Jansen-Osmann, P., & Kalveram, K.Th. (2003). How children learn internal motor models of their arms. Journal of Motor Behavior, 35, 41-52.
2002
Jansen-Osmann, P. (2002). Using desktop virtual environments to investigate the role of landmarks. Computers in Human Behavior, 18, 427-436.
Jansen-Osmann, P., Beirle, St., Richter, St., Konczak, J., & Kalveram, K. Th. (2002). Inverse motorische Modelle bei Kindern und Erwachsenen: Die Rolle der visuellen Information. [Inverse Motor models in children and adults: the role of visual feedback]. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 34, 167-173.
Jansen-Osmann, P., & Berendt, B. (2002). Investigating distance knowledge using virtual environments. Environment & Behavior, 34, 178-193.
Jansen-Osmann, P., Richter, St., Konczak, J., & Kalveram, K. Th. (2002). Force adaptation transfers to untrained workspace regions in children: evidence for developing inverse dynamic motor models. Experimental Brain Research, 143, 212-200.
1998-2001
Heineken, E., & Jansen-Osmann, P. (1998). Lernen in virtuellen Realitäten - Erwerb räumlichen Wissens. [Learning in virtual reality-acquisition of spatial knowledge]. Internationale Schulbuchforschung, 20, 149-159.
Jansen-Osmann, P. (2001). Der Einfluß der Gestaltung einer Route auf das Distanzwissen.[The influence of environmental features of a route on distance knowledge.] Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 48, 97-108.