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Karl M. Newell is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research centers on neuroscience with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience as well as physical therapy, sports therapy, and rehabilitation. The scientist's work also spans developmental and educational psychology, orthopedics and sports medicine, and social psychology.

Their main research topics include motor control and adaptation, balance, gait and falls prevention, action observation and synchronization, sport psychology and performance, sports performance and training, children's physical and motor development, and complex systems and time series analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Karl M. Newell include the Journal of Motor Behavior, Journal of Sports Sciences, Journal of Motor Learning and Development, Frontiers in Psychology, and Neuroscience Letters.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Karl M. Newell feature the following publications:

  • What are Fundamental Motor Skills and What is Fundamental About Them? (2020) - Journal of Motor Learning and Development
  • Collective Variables and Task Constraints in Movement Coordination, Control and Skill (2020) - Journal of Motor Behavior

They collaborate regularly with several co-authors, including Gareth Irwin, Genevieve Williams, Madhur Mangalam, Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, and Yeou-Teh Liu.

The body of work produced by Karl M. Newell focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying motor behavior, skill acquisition, and coordination. Their research is interdisciplinary, integrating insights from neuroscience, psychology, and sports science to explore how motor skills develop and adapt across various contexts and populations.

Best Publications

  • Free(z)ing Degrees of Freedom in Skill Acquisition

    Beatrix Vereijken;Richard E. A. van Emmerik;H. T. A. Whiting;Karl M. Newell

  • Changing complexity in human behavior and physiology through aging and disease.

    David E Vaillancourt;Karl M Newell

  • Time scales in motor learning and development.

    Karl M. Newell;Yeou Teh Liu;Gottfried Mayer-Kress

  • Coordination, Control and Skill

    K.M. Newell

  • Variability and motor control

    Karl M. Newell;Daniel M. Corcos

  • Noise, information transmission, and force variability.

    Andrew B. Slifkin;Karl M. Newell

  • Intermittency in the control of continuous force production.

    Andrew B. Slifkin;David E. Vaillancourt;Karl M. Newell

  • Dimensional change in motor learning

    Karl M. Newell;David E. Vaillancourt

  • Movement system variability

    Keith Davids;Simon Bennett;Karl Newell

  • Aging and the time and frequency structure of force output variability

    David E. Vaillancourt;Karl M. Newell

  • Knowledge of results and motor learning.

    Karl Maxim Newell

  • The dynamics of resting and postural tremor in Parkinson's disease

    David E Vaillancourt;Karl M Newell

  • Time scales of adaptive behavior and motor learning in the presence of stochastic perturbations

    W.I. Schöllhorn;G. Mayer-Kress;G. Mayer-Kress;K.M. Newell;M. Michelbrink

  • Differential rate of recovery in athletes after first and second concussion episodes.

    Semyon Slobounov;Elena Slobounov;Wayne J. Sebastianelli;Cheng Cao

  • Search Strategies and the Acquisition of Coordination

    K.M. Newell;P.N. Kugler;R.E.A. Van Emmerik;P.V. Mcdonald

  • Stochastic processes in postural center-of-pressure profiles

    K. M. Newell;S. M. Slobounov;E. S. Slobounova;P. C. M. Molenaar;P. C. M. Molenaar

  • Effects of aging on force variability, single motor unit discharge patterns, and the structure of 10, 20, and 40 Hz EMG activity

    David E Vaillancourt;Lars Larsson;Karl M Newell

  • Is Variability in Human Performance a Reflection of System Noise

    Andrew B. Slifkin;Karl M. Newell

  • Modulation of cortical activity in 2D versus 3D virtual reality environments: an EEG study.

    Semyon M. Slobounov;William Ray;Brian Johnson;Elena Slobounov

  • Task constraints and infant grip configurations.

    K. M. Newell;D. M. Scully;P. V. McDonald;Renée Baillargeon

  • Self-injurious behavior: Gene-brain-behavior relationships

    Stephen R. Schroeder;Mary Lou Oster-Granite;Gershon Berkson;James W. Bodfish

  • Force variability in isometric responses.

    K. M. Newell;Les G. Carlton

Frequent Co-Authors

Semyon Slobounov
Semyon Slobounov Pennsylvania State University
David E. Vaillancourt
David E. Vaillancourt University of Florida
Mark H. Lewis
Mark H. Lewis University of Florida
James W. Bodfish
James W. Bodfish Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Peter A. Hancock
Peter A. Hancock University of Central Florida
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Renée Baillargeon
Renée Baillargeon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gilles Allali
Gilles Allali University of Lausanne
Michael F. Cataldo
Michael F. Cataldo Kennedy Krieger Institute
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago

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