The effect of somatosensory input on motor imagery depends upon motor imagery capability

Frontiers in Psychology
Nobuaki MizuguchiKazuyuki Kanosue

Abstract

We investigated that the relationship between motor imagery ability and the effect of tactile input associated with holding a tennis racket on motor imagery of the forehand and backhand swings. The effect was assessed by the time utilized for motor imagery (mental chronometry). Seventeen tennis players imagined forehand and backhand swings with a forehand grip, a backhand grip or while holding nothing. In all cases, imaging the swings took longer than the time taken for a real swing. For imagery of the backhand swing, holding a racket with a backhand grip decreased the imaging time (p < 0.05) as compared to the trials with a forehand grip or while holding nothing. On the other hand, holding the racket with a backhand grip tended to increase the time required for forehand swing imagery. These results suggest that a congruent grip improves, and an incongruent grip deteriorates, motor imagery of the backhand swing. For players who took a longer time in the condition where they held nothing (i.e., poor imaging ability), the effect of a congruent backhand grip was greater (r = 0.67, p < 0.01). However, a congruent forehand grip did not improve motor imagery of the forehand swing. Since 15 of the participants in the present study fav...Continue Reading

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Jun 9, 2016·Human Brain Mapping·Catarina SaioteMatilde Inglese
Nov 9, 2016·Neuroscience Letters·Nobuaki MizuguchiKazuyuki Kanosue
May 12, 2016·Perceptual and Motor Skills·Barbora KolářováJim D Richards
Dec 19, 2017·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience·Xiaokang ShuXiangyang Zhu
Aug 28, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Takahiro Hirao, Hiroaki Masaki
Dec 4, 2021·Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology·Masanori Sakamoto, Hirotoshi Ifuku

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