Karl M. Newell

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Ph.D., 1973, Physical Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Kinesiology and Biobehavioral Health; Marie Underhill Noll Chair and Head of Department, Kinesiology.

Contact Information

275 Recreation Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

(814) 863-1163
Fax: (814) 865-1275

kmn1@psu.edu

Research Interests

Coordination, control and skill of normal and abnormal human movement across the life-span; development of coordination, acquisition of skill, information and movement dynamics, mental retardation and motor skills, drug exercise influences on movement control.

Selected Publications

Hong, S. L., Bodfish, J. W., & Newell, K. M.  (2006).  Power-Law Scaling for Macroscopic Entropy and Microscopic Complexity: Evidence from Human Movement and Posture.  Chaos, 16, 131-135.

Stratton, S. M., Liu, Y-T., Hong, S.L., Mayer-Kress, G., & Newell, K. M.  (2007).  Snoddy (1926) Revisited: Time scales of motor learning.  Journal of Motor Behavior, 39, 503-515.

Newell, K. M., Liu, Y-T., & Mayer-Kress, G.  (2008).  Landscapes beyond the HKB Model.  In A. Fuchs & V. K. Jirsa (Eds.), Coordination: Neural, behavioral and social dynamics.  Berlin: Springer Verlag.