The influence of imagery capacity in motor performance improvement

Ruffino, Célia; Papaxanthis, Charalambos; Lebon, Florent

doi:10.1007/s00221-017-5039-8

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“…Motor task test: After this initial screening, 64 students remained who were randomly divided into 8 groups. In regard to the individual imagery abilities, subjects also filled out a recent revised version of the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ-2) to determine (on a 5point scale) the clarity with which they were able to imagine movements and especially the difference between their capacity to use internal and external visual imagery (44). Participants were divided homogeneously into one of these eight groups according to their score in the questionnaire.…”

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The Effects of 24-Hour Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive and Motor Skills of Male College Students

Ghanbari

Taheri

Sohrabi

2019

Ann. Appl. Sport Sci

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Background. Sleep is assumed to be a critical factor for human physiological and cognitive function. Lack of sleep is a common condition in daily life. Objectives. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of 24-hour sleep deprivation on cognitive and motor skills in university students. Methods. The participants were volunteers that consisted of 290 male students aged 19-25 years. After primary screening, the subjects were randomly divided into two groups of cognitive tests and motor task test. Cognitive tests were included the reaction time (simple and choice), the working memory test (1-back & 2-back task) and attention (selective and divided). In the motor group, the subjects were divided into four experimental groups including (physical, observational, mental and combined training) and four paired control groups who were exposed to badminton short service training. The experimental groups were trained with 24-h sleep deprivation and the control group was trained without sleep deprivation. In the acquisition stage, each subject was trained using his routine training method. After training, the subjects were followed a normal day-night sleep pattern. At 24, 72 and 168 h after acquisition, a short-service retention test was taken from participants. Results. The results of cognitive tests showed that sleep deprivation had no effect on reaction time, working memory (1-back) and selective attention, but it had a major effect on working memory (2-back) and divided attention (p=0.02). The results of motor test showed that sleep deprivation did not have an effect on acquisition and retention in both physical and combined groups. (p>0.05).Sleep deprivation did not have an effect on the skill acquisition in the observation group (p>0.05); however, in the retention tests, the control group significantly showed a better performance. Skill acquisition in the mental training group was significantly affected by sleep deprivation and this effect was obvious in the retention tests (p=0.0001). Conclusion. The results showed that, under conditions of sleep deprivation, some cognitive functions (working memory 2-back test & divided attention) were affected and that physical and combined training were preferred at the time of training to acquire new motor skills.

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The Effects of 24-Hour Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive and Motor Skills of Male College Students

Ghanbari

Taheri

Sohrabi

2019

Ann. Appl. Sport Sci

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“…Particularly, in the field of rehabilitation, motor imagery training has shown to be beneficial in the recovery of an affected upper limb and balance in some systematic reviews (García Carrasco and Aboitiz Cantalapiedra, 2016;Guerra et al, 2017). Moreover, a previous study in healthy subjects has found high vividness scores to be related to greater improvement (Ruffino et al, 2017). These findings suggest that it is important how vividly a subject can perform motor imagery in order to practice effective motor imagery training.…”

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“…In these studies, as supplementary data for accuracy of results, it is considered important to show the subject’s MI ability to form and control accurate mental images of movement and the quality and vividness of their image of the motor act (Guillot and Collet, 2005 ; Sharma et al, 2006 ). In particular, the Movement Imagery Questionnaire (MIQ; Malouin et al, 2007 ), Vividness of MIQ (VMIQ; Isaac et al, 1986 ), and Kinesthetic and Visual Imagery Questionnaire (KVIQ; Malouin et al, 2007 ) are used to measure the subject’s MI ability, whereas the visual analogue scale (VAS; Mateo et al, 2018 ) and Likert scale (Ruffino et al, 2017 ) describe the subjective perception of how clear and vivid the MI was. In the present study, we defined “MI ability assessment” as that which evaluates the subject’s MI ability with a task that is different from the task to be learned in MI training.…”

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The Vividness of Motor Imagery Is Correlated With Corticospinal Excitability During Combined Motor Imagery and Action Observation

Moriuchi

Nakashima

Nakamura³

et al. 2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between motor imagery (MI) assessment (ability and quality) and neurophysiological assessment [transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-induced motor-evoked potentials (MEPs)] during combined MI and action observation (AO; MI + AO). Sixteen subjects completed an MI task playing the piano with both hands, and neurophysiological assessment was performed during the MI task. The Movement Imagery Questionnaire-Revised was adopted to evaluate MI ability, while the visual analogue scale (VAS) was adopted to evaluate MI quality. A TMS pulse was delivered during the MI task, and MEPs were subsequently recorded in the abductor pollicis brevis (APB). We found a significant positive correlation between the VAS score and the TMS-induced MEPs (ρ = 0.497, p < 0.001). These findings suggest that the VAS score could potentially reflect the corticospinal excitability during MI + AO, particularly in complex MI tasks.

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“…Furthermore, neuroimaging data have demonstrated that the imagined and actual movements are functionally equivalent in the sense they share the same neural circuitry [ 13 – 15 ]. It could be hypothesized that such neural circuitry might underlie the improvements in movement efficiency induced by MI, allowing athletes to improve the level of performance [ 16 , 17 ].…”

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Functional Role of Internal and External Visual Imagery: Preliminary Evidences from Pilates

et al. 2018

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The present study investigates whether a functional difference between the visualization of a sequence of movements in the perspective of the first- (internal VMI-I) or third- (external VMI-E) person exists, which might be relevant to promote learning. By using a mental chronometry experimental paradigm, we have compared the time or execution, imagination in the VMI-I perspective, and imagination in the VMI-E perspective of two kinds of Pilates exercises. The analysis was carried out in individuals with different levels of competence (expert, novice, and no-practice individuals). Our results showed that in the Expert group, in the VMI-I perspective, the imagination time was similar to the execution time, while in the VMI-E perspective, the imagination time was significantly lower than the execution time. An opposite pattern was found in the Novice group, in which the time of imagination was similar to that of execution only in the VMI-E perspective, while in the VMI-I perspective, the time of imagination was significantly lower than the time of execution. In the control group, the times of both modalities of imagination were significantly lower than the execution time for each exercise. The present data suggest that, while the VMI-I serves to train an already internalised gesture, the VMI-E perspective could be useful to learn, and then improve, the recently acquired sequence of movements. Moreover, visual imagery is not useful for individuals that lack a specific motor experience. The present data offer new insights in the application of mental training techniques, especially in field of sports. However, further investigations are needed to better understand the functional role of internal and external visual imagery.

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The influence of imagery capacity in motor performance improvement

Cited by 38 publications

References 54 publications

The Effects of 24-Hour Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive and Motor Skills of Male College Students

The Effects of 24-Hour Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive and Motor Skills of Male College Students

The Vividness of Motor Imagery Is Correlated With Corticospinal Excitability During Combined Motor Imagery and Action Observation

Functional Role of Internal and External Visual Imagery: Preliminary Evidences from Pilates

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