Fabian Steinberg
Assistant Professor
Master's Degrees: MA, Sport Science, German Sport University Cologne, 2007
MA, Biology, University of Cologne, 2012
PhD: Human Movement Science, German Sport University Cologne, 2014
Phone: 225-578-2923
Email: fsteinberg@lsu.edu
Office: 2233 Pleasant Hall
Biography
Fabian Steinberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology. He holds a doctorate in Sport Science. After graduating in the motor-control lab of the Institute of Physiology and Anatomy of the German Sport University, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Sport Psychology of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany.
His research investigates human movement, cognition and motor performance with a neuroscience perspective. His research also focuses applied settings such as human performance in sport or extreme environments (weightlessness or underwater). He is also engaged in research on modulating brain activity using brain stimulation and or biofeedback techniques. The goal of his research is to find optimized ways to improve athletic performance through state-of-the art neuroscience techniques and to modulate brain activity that contributes to improvement of performance and rehabilitation processes.
Selected Publications
Steinberg, F., & Doppelmayr, M. (2019). Neurocognitive markers during prolonged breath-holding in freedivers: An event-related EEG study. Frontiers in physiology, 10, 69.
Berger, A., Horst, F., Müller-Eysing, G., Steinberg, F., Schöllhorn, W., Doppelmayr, M. (2019): Increased Gait Variability During Robot-Assisted Gait Training is accompanied by Increased Somatosensory Brain Activation in Healthy People. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 16(1), 1-13.
Möller, F., Hoffmann, U., Dalecki, M., Dräger, T., Doppelmayr, M. & Steinberg, F. (2019). Physical exercise intensity during submersion selectively affects executive functions. Human Factors, https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720819879313
Steinberg, F., Pixa, N. H., & Fregni, F. (2018). A Review of Acute Aerobic Exercise and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Effects on Cognitive Functions and Their Potential Synergies. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 12, 534.
Pixa, N. H., Berger, A., Steinberg, F., & Doppelmayr, M. (2018). Anodal HD-tDCS over the motor cortex or parietal cortex does not enhance learning of a bimanual coordination task. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. 1-13.
Berger, A., Pixa, N. H., Steinberg, F., & Doppelmayr, M. (2018). Brain oscillatory and hemodynamic activity in a bimanual coordination task following transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS): A combined EEG-fNIRS study. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11, 130.
Steinberg, F., & Doppelmayr, M. (2017). Executive functions of divers are selectively impaired at 20-meter water depth. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1000.
Pixa N.H., Steinberg, F., Doppelmayr, M., (2017): High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of both motor cortices enhances uni- and bimanual dexterity. Neuroscience Letters. 643, 84–88.
Steinberg, F., Pixa, N.H., Doppelmayr, M. (2016): Mirror-visual feedback improves inter-manual transfer in a sport-specific task: A comparison between different skill levels. Neural Plasticity. Article ID 8628039.
Steinberg, F., Kalicinski, M., Dalecki, M., & Bock, O. (2015). Human performance in a realistic instrument-control task during short-term microgravity. PloS one, 10(6).
Selected Presentations
Berger, A., Horst, F., Steinberg, F., Thomas, F., Müller-Eising, C. & Doppelmayr, M. (2019): Back to Base: How Robotic Support Affects Treadmill Walking and the Underlying Brain Activation in Healthy People. European Congress of NeuroRehabilitation. Budapest
Steinberg, F., Doppelmayr, M. (2018). Acute effects of physical exercise on cognitive performance in simulated weightlessness by full water immersion. International Astronautical Congress. Bremen.
Steinberg F., Berger, A., Pixa, N.H., Doppelmayr, M. (2018). A comparison between acute exercise and transcranial direct current stimulation effects on executive functions. German Sport Spychology Association (asp), Köln, Germany.
Steinberg, F., Pixa, N.H., Doppelmayr, M. (2017). The breathless brain: EEG oscillations during prolonged breath-holding in expert apnea-divers and novices. European Congress of Sport Science. Bochum.
Steinberg F., Pixa, N.H., Doppelmayr, M. (2016). Mirror-Induced visual feedback improves inter-manual transfer of a sport-specific task: Comparison between different skill levels. European Congress of Sport Science. Vienna.
Selected Grants/Funded Projects
German Aerospace Centre (DLR): Hoffmann, U, Fomina E., Steinberg F., Drescher U. (2018): The influence of different training stimuli on cardiorespiratory regulation and cognitive skills during 4 months of isolation. PI: Uwe Hoffmann, CI: Fabian Steinberg
Research grants of the University of Mainz, Germany: PI Steinberg, F. (2017): Modulation of cognitive performance by high definition transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and simultaneous aerobic exercise.
PI: Steinberg, F. (2015): Computer-based measurement of cognitive functions in full water immersion for characterization of human performance in "extreme” environmental conditions.
Awards
1st place German Sports University Cologne - Young Investigator Award for Dissertations (2014) in the category "Natural and Life Sciences".
3rd place research presentation award in the conference: "Performing Under Pressure - International and interdisciplinary symposium: 46th annual conference of the German Society for Sport Psychology & Arts in Motion 2014.
Professional Service
Ad Hoc Review Service to Journals:
Brain Stimulation, IEEE: Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Human Factors, Human
Movement Science, Psychophysiology, International Journal of Sport Psychology, Biological
Psychology, Brain Research, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Journal
of Neurophysiology, Behavioural Brain Research, Psychology of Sport and Exercise,
Perceptual & Motor Skills, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Neuroscience,
Experimental Brain Research, PloS One, Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, Physiology
& Behavior.