togog: Dr. Robert Rein

Robert Rein:

Research assistant with the German Sport University Cologne.
Since October 2009 post-doc with the Volkswagen-project “Towards a Grammar of Gestures: Evolution, Brain, and Linguistic Structures”.
In 2009, post-doc with the Fyssen Foundation (Paris) based at the EHESS (Paris), project-title: “Modeling of stone-knapping movements in early hominids”.
In 2008, post-doc with the EU project “Hand to Mouth: a framework for understanding the archaeological and fossil records of human cognitive evolution” at the EHESS, Paris.
2003 - 2007, PhD dissertation “Coordination of a discrete multi-articular action from a dynamical systems perspective” at the School of Physical Education, University of Otago (New Zealand).
In 2003, Magister Artium in Sports Sciences, Sports medicine, and Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main (Germany).

Publications:

Rein, R., Davids, K., Button, C. (in press), Adaptive and phase transition behavior in performance of discrete multi-articular actions by degenerate neurobiological systems, Experimental Brain Research

Bril, B., Rein, R., Nonaka, T., Dietrich, G., Wenban-Smith, F. (in press), The role of expertise in stone knapping: Skill differences in functional action adaptation to task constraints, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Rein, R., Button, C., Davids K., Summers, J. (in press), Investigating coordination in discrete multi-articular actions using cluster analysis, Motor control

Chow, J.Y., Davids, K., Button, C., Rein, R., Hristovski, R., Koh, M. (2009), Dynamics of multi-articular coordination in neurobiological systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Volume 13(1)

Chow, J.Y., Davids, K., Button, C., Rein, R. (2008), Dynamics of movement patterning in learning a discrete multiarticular action, Motor Control, 12(3), 219-240