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Overview

Jonathan B. Dingwell is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including health professions, medicine, and engineering, with significant contributions to physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, biomedical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and public health.

The primary topics Jonathan B. Dingwell has explored involve balance, gait, and falls prevention, motor control and adaptation, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, robotic locomotion and control, injury epidemiology and prevention, muscle activation and electromyography studies, and evacuation and crowd dynamics.

Jonathan B. Dingwell has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Joseph P. Cusumano, Meghan E. Kazanski, Anna C. Render, David M. Desmet, and Navendu S. Patil. The volume of these collaborations varies, with the most frequent coauthoring done alongside Joseph P. Cusumano.

Research outputs have commonly appeared in several key venues. The most frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the Journal of Biomechanics, Gait & Posture, the Journal of The Royal Society Interface, and Scientific Reports.

Selected recent papers by Jonathan B. Dingwell include:

  • How healthy older adults regulate lateral foot placement while walking in laterally destabilizing environments, 2020, Journal of Biomechanics
  • Rethinking margin of stability: Incorporating step-to-step regulation to resolve the paradox, 2022, Journal of Biomechanics
  • Viability, task switching, and fall avoidance of the simplest dynamic walker, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Task-level regulation enhances global stability of the simplest dynamic walker, 2020, Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Adaptive multi-objective control explains how humans make lateral maneuvers while walking, 2022, PLoS Computational Biology

Best Publications

  • Local dynamic stability versus kinematic variability of continuous overground and treadmill walking.

    J. B. Dingwell;J. P. Cusumano;P. R. Cavanagh;D. Sternad

  • Kinematic variability and local dynamic stability of upper body motions when walking at different speeds.

    Jonathan B. Dingwell;Laura C. Marin

  • Learning to move amid uncertainty.

    Robert A. Scheidt;Jonathan B. Dingwell;Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi

  • Effects of walking speed, strength and range of motion on gait stability in healthy older adults

    Hyun G. Kang;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Slower speeds in patients with diabetic neuropathy lead to improved local dynamic stability of continuous overground walking

    Jonathan B Dingwell;Jonathan B Dingwell;J. P. Cusumano;D. Sternad;P. R. Cavanagh

  • Differences Between Local and Orbital Dynamic Stability During Human Walking

    Jonathan B. Dingwell;Hyun Gu Kang

  • Do humans optimally exploit redundancy to control step variability in walking

    Jonathan B. Dingwell;Joby John;Joseph P. Cusumano

  • Dynamic margins of stability during human walking in destabilizing environments

    Patricia M. McAndrew Young;Jason M. Wilken;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Walking variability during continuous pseudo-random oscillations of the support surface and visual field.

    Patricia M. McAndrew;Jonathan B. Dingwell;Jason M. Wilken

  • Dynamic stability of human walking in visually and mechanically destabilizing environments

    Patricia M. McAndrew;Jason M. Wilken;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Voluntary changes in step width and step length during human walking affect dynamic margins of stability

    Patricia M. McAndrew Young;Patricia M. McAndrew Young;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Increased variability of continuous overground walking in neuropathic patients is only indirectly related to sensory loss.

    Jonathan B. Dingwell;Jonathan B. Dingwell;Peter R. Cavanagh

  • The effects of neuromuscular fatigue on task performance during repetitive goal-directed movements.

    Deanna H. Gates;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Use of an instrumented treadmill for real-time gait symmetry evaluation and feedback in normal and trans-tibial amputee subjects

    J. B. Dingwell;B. L. Davis;D. M. Frazier

  • Manipulating objects with internal degrees of freedom: Evidence for model-based control

    Jonathan B. Dingwell;Christopher D. Mah;Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi

  • Voluntarily changing step length or step width affects dynamic stability of human walking

    Patricia M. McAndrew Young;Patricia M. McAndrew Young;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Changes in Muscle Activity and Kinematics of Highly Trained Cyclists During Fatigue

    J.B. Dingwell;J.E. Joubert;F. Diefenthaeler;J.D. Trinity

  • Dynamic instability during post-stroke hemiparetic walking

    Pei Chun Kao;Jonathan B. Dingwell;Jill S. Higginson;Stuart Binder-Macleod

  • Dynamic stability of superior vs. inferior segments during walking in young and older adults.

    Hyun Gu Kang;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Dynamic Stability of Passive Dynamic Walking on an Irregular Surface

    Jimmy Li Shin Su;Jonathan B. Dingwell

  • Data from: Do humans optimally exploit redundancy to control step variability in walking?

    Jonathan B. Dingwell;Joby John;Joseph P. Cusumano

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R. Cavanagh
Peter R. Cavanagh University of Washington
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi Northwestern University
Dagmar Sternad
Dagmar Sternad Northeastern University
Darla M. Castelli
Darla M. Castelli The University of Texas at Austin
James L. Patton
James L. Patton University of Illinois at Chicago
Charalambos Papaxanthis
Charalambos Papaxanthis Grenoble Alpes University
Randall K. Powers
Randall K. Powers University of Washington
Daniel M. Wolpert
Daniel M. Wolpert Columbia University
Thierry Pozzo
Thierry Pozzo Italian Institute of Technology
Luciano Fadiga
Luciano Fadiga Italian Institute of Technology

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