Alexander P. Burgoyne

Alexander Burgoyne is a doctoral student at Michigan State University. He investigates the role of cognitive processes and ability factors in accounting for exceptional performance in domains such as music, chess, science, and sports. He is particularly fascinated by expertise and the cognitive processes underlying complex skill. My research interests include assessing the roles of ability, motivation, and training in the attainment of exceptional performance, longitudinal predictors of competency, the contribution of various factors to the efficacy of practice, investigating the "circumvention of limits" hypothesis across domains, and creativity and improvisation.