Learning motor actions via imagery—perceptual or motor learning?

C Frank, SN Kraeutner, M Rieger, SG Boe - Psychological Research, 2024 - Springer
It is well accepted that repeatedly imagining oneself acting without any overt behavior can
lead to learning. The prominent theory accounting for why imagery practice is effective …

Online and offline performance gains following motor imagery practice: a comprehensive review of behavioral and neuroimaging studies

F Di Rienzo, U Debarnot, S Daligault… - Frontiers in human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
There is now compelling evidence that motor imagery (MI) promotes motor learning. While
MI has been shown to influence the early stages of the learning process, recent data …

A theoretical perspective on action consequences in action imagery: Internal prediction as an essential mechanism to detect errors

M Rieger, SG Boe, TGJ Ingram, VKE Bart… - Psychological …, 2024 - Springer
Acting in the environment results in both intended and unintended consequences. Action
consequences provide feedback about the adequacy of actions while they are in progress …

Motor skills and cognitive benefits in children and adolescents: Relationship, mechanism and perspectives

P Shi, X Feng - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective There is a strong interaction between motor skills and cognitive benefits for
children and young people. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between …

Motor imagery practice and cognitive processes

A Moran, H O'Shea - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mental imagery is a multimodal cognitive simulation process that enables us to represent
perceptual information in our minds in the absence of actual sensory input (Munzert et al …

Motor imagery training after stroke increases slow-5 oscillations and functional connectivity in the ipsilesional inferior parietal lobule

XU Wang, H Wang, X ** study
KM Oostra, A Van Bladel… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Background: Mental practice with motor imagery has been shown to promote motor skill
acquisition in healthy subjects and patients. Although lesions of the common motor imagery …

Movement related sensory feedback is not necessary for learning to execute a motor skill

TGJ Ingram, JP Solomon, DA Westwood… - Behavioural brain …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sensory feedback has traditionally been considered critical for motor learning. While it has
been shown that motor learning can occur in the absence of visual or somatosensory …

Generate, maintain, manipulate? Exploring the multidimensional nature of motor imagery

SN Kraeutner, SN Eppler, A Stratas, SG Boe - Psychology of Sport and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Motor imagery (MI), the mental rehearsal of a motor task, is thought to be a synergistic
interaction between processes that allow for the generation, maintenance, and …

Sequence representations after action-imagery practice of one-finger movements are effector-independent

SF Dahm, M Weigelt, M Rieger - Psychological research, 2023 - Springer
Action-imagery practice (AIP) is often less effective than action-execution practice (AEP). We
investigated whether this is due to a different time course of learning of different types of …