Karl M. Newell
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.