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Dr. Howie Zelaznik

Howard N. Zelaznik

Professor

Education:Ph.D. (1978), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
M.S. (1975), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S. (1974), Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY
 
Office:LAMB 205D
Office Phone:(765) 49-45601
Office Fax:(765) 49-61239
Email:
hnzelaz@purdue.edu
 
Web Site:Motor Behavior Program -- http://www.cla.purdue.edu/hk/motorbehavior/motor%20behavior/Home.html
 
Specializations:

Motor Control
theoretical issues in movement coordination and movement timing; event and emergent movement timing

 
Courses:HK 258 - Foundations of Motor Skill Learning
HK 495 - Research Methods in Movement and Sport Science
HK 558 - Principles of Perceptual Motor Learning
HK 670 - Advances in Motor Control
HK 670 - Matlab Programming in Kinesiology

Academic Appointments:

  • Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  • Director of the Motor Behavior and Control Laboratory
  • Department of Psychological Sciences
  • Purdue University Neuroscience Program
  • Purdue University Gerontology Program

Research Interests:

Professor Zelaznik examines theoretical issues in movement coordination and movement timing. Recently, he has proposed a new framework to explain timing processes in discrete tasks versus continuous tasks. Discrete tasks utilize an explicit, event timing system in which the central nervous system possesses a representation of the timed interval. Continuous tasks, on the other hand, are indirectly timed by the use of emergent timing. In emergent timing the central nervous system controls other variables of the movement trajectory, with the temporal properties emerging from this control process. These processes are studied in normal individuals (Purdue work) and in individuals with a compromised cerebellum (UC Berkeley collaboration ).

Memberships and Service in Professional Organizations:

  • Member, Sigma Xi
  • Member, New York Academy of Sciences
  • Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow, American Psychological Association
  • Fellow, American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education
  • President (1996-1997), North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity

Recent Publications:

  • Huys, R., Jirsa, V. K., Studenka, B., Rheaume, N., & Zelaznik, N. N. (2008). Human trajectory formation: Taxonomy of movement based on phase flow topology. In A. Fuchs & V. K. Jirsa (Eds.), Coordination:Neural, Behavioral and Social Dynamics (Understanding Complex Systems) (pp. 77-92). Berlin: Springer.
  • Zelaznik, H. N. (2008). Motor Learning for the Personal Trainer. In A. C. o. S. Medicine (Ed.), ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer, 2nd edition (pp. 177-186). Amsterdam, NL: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
  • Huys, R., Studenka, B. E., Rheaume, N. L., Zelaznik, H. N., & Jirsa, V. K. (2008). Distinct Timing Mechanisms Produce Discrete and Continuous Movements. PLoS Computational Biology, 4, e1000061.
  • Studenka, B., & Zelaznik, N. N. (2008). The Influence of Dominant versus Non-Dominant Hand on Event and Emergent Motor Timing. Human Movement Science, 27, 29-52.
  • Schlerf, J. E., Spencer, R. M. C., Zelaznik, H. N., & Ivry, R. B. (2007). Timing of rhythmic movements in patients with cerebellar degeneration. Cerebellum, 6, 221-231.
  • Zelaznik, H. N., & Harper, W. A. (2007). Skill and physical activity: A central dogma for kinesiology. Quest, 59, 163-169.
  • Zelaznik, H. N., Spencer, R. M. C., Ivry, R. B., Baria, A., Bloom, M., Dolansky, L., et al. (2005). Timing variability in circle drawing and tapping: Probing the relationship between event and emergent timing. Journal of Motor Behavior, 37, 395-404.
  • Biberstine, J., Zelaznik, H. N., Kennedy, L., & Whetter, E. (2005). Timing precision in circle drawing does not depend on spatial precision of the timing target. Journal of Motor Behavior, 37, 447-453.
  • Spencer, R. M. C., Ivry, R. B., & Zelaznik, H. N. (2005). Role of the cerebellum in movements: control of timing or movement transitions? Experimental Brain Research, 161,383-496.
  • Smith, A., & Zelaznik, H. N. (2004). Development of functional synergies for speech motor coordination in childhood and adolescence. Developmental Psychobiology, 45, 22-33.
  • Spencer, R.M.C. & Zelaznik, H.N. (2003).  Weber (slope) analysis of timing variability in tapping and drawing tasks.  Journal of Motor Behavior, 35,  371-382.
  • Spencer, R.M.C., Zelaznik, H.N., Diedrichsen, J., & Ivry, R.B. (2003).  Disrupted timing of discontinuous but not continuous movements by cerebellar lesions.  Science, 300, 1437-1439.
  • Ivry, R., Spencer, R. M., Zelaznik, H. N., & Diedrichsen, J. (2002). The cerebellum and event timing. In S. M. Highstein & W. T. Thach (Eds.), The Cerebellum: Recent developments in cerebellar research (Vol. 978, pp. 302-317). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
  • Zelaznik, H., Spencer, R. M. C., & Ivry, R. B. (2002). Dissociation of explicit and implicit timing in repetitive tapping and drawing movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 575-588.
  • Zelaznik, H. N., Spencer, R. M., & Doffin, J. G. (2000). Temporal precision in tapping and circle drawing movements at preferred rates is not correlated: Further evidence against timing as a general purpose ability. Journal of Motor Behavior, 32, 193-199.
  • Robertson, S., Zelaznik, H., Lantero, D., Gadacz, K., Spencer, R., Doffin, J., & Schneidt, T. (1999). Correlations for timing consistency among tapping and drawing tasks: Evidence against a single timing process for motor control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25, 1316-1330.

Selected Grants:

  • NSF - ITR for National Priorities, 9/15/2004 – 9/14/2009 “Skill Learning for Humanoid Robots”,  PI,  $900,000.
  • NSF - Cognitive Neuroscience - “The cerebellum and cognitive timing processes”, PI, 9/2001 – 9/2002, $15,440.
  • NIH - "Physiological Correlates of Stuttering", Co-PI,  (Anne Smith, PI) 1988 – present .  Four-year renewal began in February 2008.
  • NIH - "Language Motor Relations in Children’s Speech Production", Co-Investigator (Lisa Goffman, PI), 12/01 – 7/07, 1,000,000.

Journal Activities:

  • Editorial Board, Jan 1, 2003 – present, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
  • Executive Editor - Journal of Motor Behavior - Sept 1, 1989 -August 31, 1995.
  • Editorial Board - Acta Psychologica (an international journal of psychonomics) - Sept 88 - present.
  • Section Editor, Motor Control, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 3 year appointment, June 1, 1986 - May 31, 1989. Reappointed, June 1, 1989. Resigned 9/1/89 to take over Journal of Motor Behavior editorship.
  • Reviewer, North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Annual Publication, 1978 - 1980.
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer, Memory and Cognition.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Motor Behavior. 1979 - Aug 31, 1989
  • Regular Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 1982 - present
  • Regular Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 1985 - present
  • Reviewer, Child Development
  • Reviewer, Psychological Bulletin
  • Reviewer, Psychological Review
  • Reviewer, Developmental Psychology
  • Reviewer, Quest

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