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Richard Magill
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Dr. Magill's research concerns motor skill acquisition processes and influences, especially forms of instruction, augmented feedback, and practice schedules. Also of interest is the study of how successful performance of motor skills can be accomplished under a variety of conditions. His most recent research has investigated how implicit and explicit learning processes are involved in motor skill acquisition, and the influence of contextual interference in motor skill learning. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 articles and chapters in research journals and edited books, and he has given more than 80 invited presentations at national and international meetings. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Motor Behavior. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport from 1996 to 1999. He is author of the textbook, Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications, published by McGraw-Hill, which is now in its seventh edition.
Dr. Magill was elected an Active Fellow in the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education in 1987. He served as President of the Academy in 2003-2004. He previously served as President of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, and was a two-term member of the Managing Council of the International Society for Sport Psychology. At LSU Dr. Magill was named Helen "Bessie" Silverberg Pliner Professor in Kinesiology and received the LSU Distinquished Faculty Award in 1999.
EDUCATION:
PhD, Florida State University (1974)
M.Ed., Temple University (1969)
PUBLICATIONS:
Anderson, D.I., Magill, R.A., Sekiya, H., & Ryan, G. (2005). Support for an explanation of the guidance effect in motor skill learning. Journal of Motor Behavior, 37, 231-238.
Magill, R.A. (2004). Motor learning and Control: Concepts and applications (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Lagarde, J., Li, L., Thon, B., Magill, R., & Erbani, E. (2002). Interactions between human explicit and implicit perceptual motor learning shown by kinematic variables. Neuroscience Letters, 327:1, 66-70.
Magill, R.A. (2001). Augmented feedback in motor skill acquisition. In R.N.Singer, H.A. Hausenblaus, & C.M. Janelle (Eds.), Handbook of research on sport psychology (2nd ed., pp. 86-114). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Anderson, D., Magill, R.A., & Sekiya, H. (2001). Motor learning as a function of KR schedule and characteristics of task intrinsic feedback. Journal of Motor Behavior, 33, 59-66.
Magill, R.A. (1998). Knowledge is more than we can talk about: Implicit learning in motor skill acquisition. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport . 69, 104-110.
Van Loon, E.M., Buekers, M.J., Helsen, W., & Magill, R.A. (1998). Kinematic adjustments in a coincidence anticipation task due to erroneous knowledge of results. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport . 69, 38-46.
PRESENTATIONS:
Recent Invited Presentations:
Magill, R. A. (2003, November). Implicit motor learning. Invited keynote presentation at the Xth Congress of the Association of Research on Sport and Physical Activity (ACAPS), Toulouse, France.
Magill, R. A. (2003, December). Motor skill practice conditions that promote movement problem solving. Invited keynote presentation at the Exercise and Psychological Well-Being – Viveca Symposium, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Magill, R.A. (2002, July). Verbal instructions and practice schedules: Two influential variables for sport skill acquisition and performance. Invited keynote presentation for the Sport Psychology Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology at the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Singapore.
Magill, R.A. (2001, June). Practice variables: What do we know about their influence on motor skill learning? Invited presentation as Senior Scholar Lecture for Motor Learning/Control at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), St. Louis, MO.
Recent Submitted Presentations:
Porter, J.M. & Magill, R.A. (2005, June). Practicing along the contextual interference continuum increases performance of a golf putting task. Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, St. Petersburg, Florida. [Abstract published: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2005, Vol. 27, Supplement, p. S124.]
Wu, W.F.W., Magill, R.A. & Foto, J.G. (2005, June). Allowing learners to choose: Self-regulated practice schedules for learning multiple movement patterns. Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, St. Petersburg, Florida. [Abstract published: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2005, Vol. 27, Supplement, p. S161.]
Reeder, A.A., Magill, R.A., & Reeder, K.P. (2005, February). Attention and automaticity in learning a novel motor task. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Marilyn Gossman Graduate Student Seminar at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, New Orleans, LA
Porter, J.M. & Magill, R.A. (2004, June). The effects of practicing a golf putting task moving along the contextual interference continuum. Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. [Abstract published: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2004, Vol. 26, Supplement, p. S151.]
Wu, W. & Magill, R.A. (2004, June). To dictate or not: The exploration of a self-regulated practice schedule. Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. [Abstract published: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2004, Vol. 26, Supplement, p. S202.]
Klumpp, M.L. & Magill, R.A. (2004, June). Discovery learning vs. guided learning of hearing aid insertion. Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. [Abstract published: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2004, Vol. 26, Supplement, p. S106.]
Magill, R. A. & Porter, J. M. (2004, June). Concurrent and terminal augmented feedback effects on learning a bimanual coordination skill. Presented at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. [Abstract published: Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 2004, Vol. 26, Supplement, p. S128.]
Jeansonne, J. J., Li, L., & Magill, R. A. (2003, July). The biomechanics of dart throwing: Changes during practice. Presented at the International Society of Biomechanics XIXth Congress, Otago, New Zealand.
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