The effectiveness of proprioceptive training for improving motor performance and motor dysfunction: a systematic review

L Winter, Q Huang, JVL Sertic… - Frontiers in rehabilitation …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective Proprioceptive training is any intervention aiming to improve proprioceptive
function with the ultimate goal to enhance motor function and performance. It has been …

The effect of handedness on mental rotation of hands: a systematic review and meta-analysis

HG Jones, FA Braithwaite, LM Edwards… - Psychological …, 2021 - Springer
Body-specific mental rotation is thought to rely upon internal representations of motor
actions. Handedness is a source of distinctly different motor experience that shapes the …

Development of a new measure for assessing mentalizing: The multidimensional mentalizing questionnaire (MMQ)

A Gori, A Arcioni, E Topino, G Craparo… - Journal of Personalized …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This research consists of two studies which aimed to:(1) evaluate the psychometric
properties of a new self-report measure for the assessment of mentalizing, the …

Event-related potentials during mental rotation of body-related stimuli in spinal cord injury population

R Vastano, E Widerstrom-Noga - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Mental rotations of body-related stimuli are known to engage the motor system and activate
body schema. Sensorimotor deficits following spinal cord injury (SCI) alter the …

Mental imagery as a rehabilitative therapy for neuropathic pain in people with spinal cord injury: a randomized controlled trial

J Kaur, S Ghosh, AK Sahani… - … and Neural Repair, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Pain of neuropathic origin in spinal cord injury (SCI) is unbearable and
challenging to treat. Research studies conducted in the past have shown that mental …

Mental rotation of hands and objects in ageing and Parkinson's disease: Differentiating motor imagery and visuospatial ability

J Bek, S Humphries, E Poliakoff, N Brady - Experimental brain research, 2022 - Springer
Motor imagery supports motor learning and performance and has the potential to be a useful
strategy for neurorehabilitation. However, motor imagery ability may be impacted by ageing …

Motor imagery performance and tactile spatial acuity: are they altered in people with frozen shoulder?

JD Breckenridge, JH McAuley, KA Ginn - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is a severe chronic pain condition that is not well
understood and current treatment is suboptimal. In several other chronic pain conditions …

Handedness impacts the neural correlates of kinesthetic motor imagery and execution: A FMRI study

M Crotti, K Koschutnig… - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The human brain functional lateralization has been widely studied over the past decades,
and neuroimaging studies have shown how activation of motor areas during hand …

Distinct modulation of mu and beta rhythm desynchronization during observation of embodied fake hand rotation

S Shibuya, S Unenaka, S Shimada, Y Ohki - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a phenomenon whereby participants recognize a fake
hand as their own. Studies have examined the effects of observing fake hand movements …

Sex differences in implicit motor imagery: Evidence from the hand laterality task

M Conson, F De Bellis, C Baiano, I Zappullo, G Raimo… - Acta Psychologica, 2020 - Elsevier
Behavioural evidence suggest that males outperform females in mentally transforming
objects, whereas whether sex differences exist in mentally transforming body part images …