Faculty

Richard Magill

Professor and Chair of Teaching and Learning

Richard Magill

Phone: 212-992-7709
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Curriculum Vitae/Syllabi

Richard Magill is interested in motor skill acquisition processes and how practice related variables influence skill acquisition, 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 has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport . He is author of the textbook, Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications , published by McGraw-Hill, which is now in its ninth edition. He received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Florida State University. He came to NYU after being on the faculty of the Department of Kinesiology at Louisiana State University for 29 years.


Degrees Held

  • PhD Florida State University 1974
    Educational Psychology (Motor Learning Specialization)
  • M.Ed. Temple University 1969
    Physical Education

Selected Publications

  • Magill, R.A. (2011). Motor learning and Control: Concepts and applications (9th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. (link)
  • Gordon, A.M., & Magill, R.A. (2012). Motor learning: Application of principles to pediatric rehabilitation. In S.K. Campbell, R.J. Palisano, & M.N. Orlin (Eds.) Physical therapy for children (4th ed., pp. 151-174). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
  • Magill, R.A., & Anderson, D.I. (in press). The roles and uses of augmented feedback in motor skill acquisition. In N.J. Hodges and A.M. Williams (Eds.), Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
  • Wu, W.F.W., & Magill, R.A. (2011). Allowing learners to choose: Self-controlled practice schedules for learning multiple movement patterns. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 449-457.
  • Porter, J.M., & Magill, R.A. (2010). Systematically increasing contextual interference is beneficial for learning sport skills. Journal of Sports Sciences, 28 (12), 1277-1285.
  • 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.
  • 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.