---
_id: '66689'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\r\n                  <jats:p>Deceptive
    actions such as head fakes are a hallmark of interactive sports, yet it is not
    well understood how decisions and whole-body responses to head fakes unfold over
    time. In the present study, participants viewed video sequences of a basketball
    player passing to the left or right, either with or without a head fake. In the
    buzzer task, participants moved laterally to press a response button as if to
    intercept the pass. In the vocal task, they verbally indicated pass direction.
    Reaction times (RTs), movement times (MTs), and medio-lateral center-of-pressure
    (CoP) displacements were recorded to investigate whether motor output is rapid
    and stimulus-driven or rather requires continuous integration of fake and pass
    cues. Further, we investigated whether the mere observation of a basketball player
    leads to overt micromovements even if no response movement is intended. The data
    analysis shows that head fakes increased RTs in both the buzzer and vocal tasks.
    In the buzzer task, head fakes induced an initial, small erroneous CoP shift,
    which was then rapidly corrected. When CoP trajectories were aligned by head orientation,
    fake and non-fake trajectories diverged shortly after movement onset. In the present
    dynamic sport-related context, this pattern is more compatible with the early
    integration of head and pass information than with a strictly sequential prime-target
    account, although the paradigm differs from classic Rapid Chase Theory designs
    with discrete primes and target events. In the vocal task, participants were not
    instructed to move, yet CoP traces showed tiny but systematically lateralized
    micromovements with a temporal structure resembling that in the buzzer task, albeit
    without an initial erroneous shift for head fakes. These postural fluctuations
    are consistent with action-observation-related motor activation, although they
    do not uniquely identify motor resonance and may also reflect attentional or generalized
    embodied response tendencies. A clear deceptive response conflict at the postural
    level emerged only when a lateralized action was prepared.</jats:p>"
article_number: '22820'
author:
- first_name: Iris
  full_name: Güldenpenning, Iris
  id: '52931'
  last_name: Güldenpenning
  orcid: 0000-0003-0549-5543
- first_name: Lars
  full_name: Schulze Frielinghaus, Lars
  id: '80673'
  last_name: Schulze Frielinghaus
- first_name: Nils Tobias
  full_name: Böer, Nils Tobias
  id: '52000'
  last_name: Böer
  orcid: 0000-0002-0236-7282
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Schmidt, Thomas
  last_name: Schmidt
- first_name: Matthias
  full_name: Weigelt, Matthias
  id: '36388'
  last_name: Weigelt
citation:
  ama: Güldenpenning I, Schulze Frielinghaus L, Böer NT, Schmidt T, Weigelt M. Early
    postural dynamics reveal the rapid processing of fake social cues for deceptive
    actions in sports. <i>Scientific Reports</i>. 2026;16(1). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8">10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8</a>
  apa: Güldenpenning, I., Schulze Frielinghaus, L., Böer, N. T., Schmidt, T., &#38;
    Weigelt, M. (2026). Early postural dynamics reveal the rapid processing of fake
    social cues for deceptive actions in sports. <i>Scientific Reports</i>, <i>16</i>(1),
    Article 22820. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Güldenpenning_Schulze Frielinghaus_Böer_Schmidt_Weigelt_2026,
    title={Early postural dynamics reveal the rapid processing of fake social cues
    for deceptive actions in sports}, volume={16}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8">10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8</a>},
    number={122820}, journal={Scientific Reports}, publisher={Springer Science and
    Business Media LLC}, author={Güldenpenning, Iris and Schulze Frielinghaus, Lars
    and Böer, Nils Tobias and Schmidt, Thomas and Weigelt, Matthias}, year={2026}
    }'
  chicago: Güldenpenning, Iris, Lars Schulze Frielinghaus, Nils Tobias Böer, Thomas
    Schmidt, and Matthias Weigelt. “Early Postural Dynamics Reveal the Rapid Processing
    of Fake Social Cues for Deceptive Actions in Sports.” <i>Scientific Reports</i>
    16, no. 1 (2026). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8</a>.
  ieee: 'I. Güldenpenning, L. Schulze Frielinghaus, N. T. Böer, T. Schmidt, and M.
    Weigelt, “Early postural dynamics reveal the rapid processing of fake social cues
    for deceptive actions in sports,” <i>Scientific Reports</i>, vol. 16, no. 1, Art.
    no. 22820, 2026, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8">10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8</a>.'
  mla: Güldenpenning, Iris, et al. “Early Postural Dynamics Reveal the Rapid Processing
    of Fake Social Cues for Deceptive Actions in Sports.” <i>Scientific Reports</i>,
    vol. 16, no. 1, 22820, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2026, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8">10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8</a>.
  short: I. Güldenpenning, L. Schulze Frielinghaus, N.T. Böer, T. Schmidt, M. Weigelt,
    Scientific Reports 16 (2026).
date_created: 2026-08-10T10:34:01Z
date_updated: 2026-08-10T10:39:46Z
department:
- _id: '17'
- _id: '266'
doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-61922-8
intvolume: '        16'
issue: '1'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
oa: '1'
publication: Scientific Reports
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2045-2322
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
status: public
title: Early postural dynamics reveal the rapid processing of fake social cues for
  deceptive actions in sports
type: journal_article
user_id: '52000'
volume: 16
year: '2026'
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