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.

 

Acknowledged author
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.

 

Several distinctions
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.