Kinesiology
Just another School of Education Sites site

Andrea Mason

Professor/Department Chair

amason@education.wisc.edu

(608) 262-9904

297 Medical Sciences

2000 Observatory Dr

Madison, WI 53706-1121

Mason, Andrea

Download CV   Please visit our Lab Web Page  

I was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. I completed my Ph.D. in the Human Motor Systems Lab at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia under the direction of Dr. Christine MacKenzie. For my doctoral dissertation I studied kinematic and grip force patterns as people passed objects to and received objects from a partner. I have been a faculty member in the department of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since January of 2002.

Select Publications

  • Bellinger, G. C., Pickett, K. A., & Mason, A. Interlimb coordination during a combined gait and prehension task: Contributions of lower limb support preferences and footedness.
  • Toepfer, M., Padilla, A., Ponto, K., Mason, A. H., & Pickett, K. A. (2020). The effects of systematic environmental manipulation on gait in older adults. Healthcare, 8(4), 386. DOI:.
  • Mason, A. H., Grabowski, P. G., & Rutherford, D. N. (2019). The role of visual feedback and age when grasping, transferring and passing objects in virtual environments. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 35, 1870-1881.
  • Rogers, R., Travers, B. G., & Mason, A. (In Press). Bimanual reach to grasp movements in youth with and without autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychology, 2720.
  • Travers, B. G., Mason, A., Gruben, K. G., Dean III, D. C., & McLaughlin, K. (2018). Standing balance on unsteady surfaces in children on the autism spectrum: The effects of IQ. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 51, 9-17.
  • Travers, B. G., Mason, A., Mrotek, L. A., Ellertson, A., Dean, D. C., Engel, C., Gomez, A., Dadalko, O. I., & McLaughlin, K. (2017). Biofeedback-Based, Videogame Balance Training in Autism.. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Chen, K., Sesto, M., Ponto, K., Leonard, J., Mason, A., Vanderheiden, G., Williams, J., & Radwin, R. (2016). User of virtual reality feedback for patients with chronic neck and pain kinesiophobia. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(8), 1240-1248. Online Publication/Abstract.
  • D'Angelo, A., Rutherford, D. N., Ray, R., Lauger, S., Kwan, C., Cohen, E. R., Mason, A., & Pugh, C. M. (2015). Idle time: An underdeveloped performance metric fro assessing surgical skill. American Journal of Surgery, 209(1), 132-139.
  • Mason, A., & Bryden, P. J. (2015). The effect of endpoint congruency on bimanual transport and rotation tasks. Frontiers in Psychology
  • Grabowski, P. J., & Mason, A. (2014). Age differences in the control of a precision reach to grasp task within a desktop virtual environment. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 72, 383-392. Online Publication/Abstract.

Select Presentations

  • Mason, A., Pickett, K. A., Travers, B. G., & Padilla, A. (2019). Age differences in a combined walking and grasping task. presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
  • Mason, A., Zinn, J., Subramani, G., Fisher, A., Jacquot, S., & Travers, B. G. (2018, November - 2018, November). Detecting visual-motor challenges in autism using a robotically guided drawing task. Oral Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.
  • Bellinger, G. C., Pickett, K. A., & Mason, A. (2017, November - 2017, November). The effects of object location perturbations on a combined gait and prehension task. Oral Presentation presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC.
  • Travers, B. G., Dean, D. C., Mason, A., Ellertson, A., & Mrotek, L. A. (2017, May). Biofeedback-based balance training in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Oral Presentation presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
  • Mason, A., Gruben, K., Dean, D. C., McLaughlin, K., & Travers, B. G. (2017, May). Standing balance on rigid and unstable surfaces in children on the Autism Spectrum: Interaction between symptom and motor domains. Oral Presentation presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
  • Bellinger, G., Pickett, K. A., & Mason, A. (2016, November). Lower limb support preference when initiating reach to grasp movements during locomotion. Oral Presentation presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neursocience, San Diego, CA.
  • Bellinger, G. C., Rodgers, R. A., Gannon, S. J., Travers, B. G., & Mason, A. (2016, May). The end-state comfort effect in chidlren with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children: The importance of functionally relevant tasks. Oral Presentation presented at the International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
  • Rodgers, R. R., Bellinger, G., Travers, B. G., & Mason, A. (2015, October). Unimanual and bimanual reach to grasp movements in typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Oral Presentation presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
  • D'Angelo, A. D., Rutherford, D. N., Ray, R. D., Mason, A., & Pugh, C. M. (2015, February). Operative performance: Quantifying the surgeon's response to tissue characteristics. Oral Presentation presented at the Academic Surgical Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
  • Rutherford, D. N., & Mason, A. (2012, October). Visual attention in bimanual coordination: The effects of eye movement patterns in a delayed perturbation task. Oral Presentation presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neursocience, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Select Awards and Honors

  • Conway Professor of Kinesiology, 2021
  • Best Paper Award, International Academy, Research and Industry Association, 2013
  • Career Award, National Science Foundation, 2004