Research interests

Sensorimotor control and learning

Relationships between perception and action

Effector-specific sequence learning 

 

Publications

Kirsch, W. & Kunde, W. (in press). Impact of hand orientation on bimanual finger coordination in an eight-finger tapping task. Human Movement Science.

Kirsch, W. & Hoffmann, J. (in press). Stimulus dependent modulation of perceptual and motor learning in a serial reaction time task. Advances in Cognitive Psychology.

Kirsch, W., Herbort, O., Butz, M.V., & Kunde W. (2012). Influence of Motor Planning on Distance Perception within the Peripersonal space. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34880. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034880

Kirsch, W. & Hoffmann, J. (2011). Impact of instruction on the acquisition of sequence knowledge in a sensorimotor task. Acta Psychologica 138, 85-91.

Kirsch, W. & Hennighausen, E. (2011). Kinematic markers of distance specific control in linear hand movements. Journal of Motor Behavior, 43 (3), 253-262.

Kirsch, W. & Hoffmann, J. (2010). Asymmetrical intermanual transfer of learning in a sensorimotor task. Exp Brain Res, 202(4), 927-34.

Kirsch, W., Sebald, A. & Hoffmann, J. (2010). RT patterns and chunks in SRT tasks: a reply to Jiménez (2008). Psychol Res, 74(3), 352-8.

Kirsch, W. & Henninghausen, E. (2010). ERP Correlates of Linear Hand Movements: Distance Dependent Changes. Clin Neurophysiol, 121(8), 1285-92.

Kirsch, W., Henninghausen, E. & Rösler, F. (2010). ERP correlates of linear hand movements in a motor reproduction task. Psychophysiol, 47(3), 486-500.

Kirsch, W., Henninghausen, E. & Rösler, F. (2009). Dissociating cognitive and motor interference effects on kinesthetic short-term memory. Psychological Research, 73(3), 380-9.

Pollatos, O., Kirsch, W. & Schandry, R. (2005). On the relationship between interoceptive awareness, emotional experience and brain processess. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 25(3), 948-62.

Pollatos, O., Kirsch, W. & Schandry, R. (2005). Brain structures involved in interoceptive awareness and cardioafferent signal processing: a dipole source localization study. Hum. Brain Mapp, 26(1), 54-64.