Imagery practice of motor skills without conscious awareness?: a commentary to Frank et al

Modifications of imagined sensory consequences will not benefit overt performance when they cannot be transformed into motor outflow that produces them. With physical practice, the acquisition of internal models of motor transformations is largely based on prediction errors that are absent in imager...

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Published inPsychological research Vol. 88; no. 6; pp. 1843 - 1845
Main Author Heuer, Herbert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.09.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Adjustment
Awareness - physiology
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Conflicts of interest
Consciousness - physiology
Humans
Imagination - physiology
Mental task performance
Motor ability
Motor skill
Motor skill learning
Motor Skills - physiology
Motor task performance
Practice, Psychological
Psychological research
Psychology
Psychology Research
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
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Summary:Modifications of imagined sensory consequences will not benefit overt performance when they cannot be transformed into motor outflow that produces them. With physical practice, the acquisition of internal models of motor transformations is largely based on prediction errors that are absent in imagery practice. What can imagery practice nevertheless contribute to transformation learning? Explicit, strategic adjustments to novel transformations should be possible. This appears less likely for implicit adjustments. Are there variants of imagery practice that can produce adjustments without conscious awareness of the transformation and/or the resultant movement changes?
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ISSN:0340-0727
1430-2772
1430-2772
DOI:10.1007/s00426-023-01907-8