Professor Karl Newell

Karl Newell is professor and head of the Department of Kinesiology at The Pennsylvania State University. Prof. Newell’s research interests lie in the area of human movement in general and more specifically in motor learning and control. His research focuses on the coordination, control and skill of normal and abnormal human movement across the lifespan; mental retardation and motor skills; and, drug and exercise influences on movement control. He is well known for his contributions on the movement speed-accuracy relation, the structure of movement variability, and information for the learning of new movement forms.