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Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery
The present study tested whether sport-specific implements facilitate motor imagery, whereas nonspecific implements disrupt motor imagery. We asked a group of basketball players (experts) and a group of healthy controls (novices) to physically perform (motor execution) and mentally simulate (motor i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5926550/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29719738 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4687 |
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author | Zhang, Lanlan Pi, Yanling Zhu, Hua Shen, Cheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Yin |
author_facet | Zhang, Lanlan Pi, Yanling Zhu, Hua Shen, Cheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Yin |
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description | The present study tested whether sport-specific implements facilitate motor imagery, whereas nonspecific implements disrupt motor imagery. We asked a group of basketball players (experts) and a group of healthy controls (novices) to physically perform (motor execution) and mentally simulate (motor imagery) basketball throws. Subjects produced motor imagery when they were holding a basketball, a volleyball, or nothing. Motor imagery performance was measured by temporal congruence, which is the correspondence between imagery and execution times estimated as (imagery time minus execution time) divided by (imagery time plus execution time), as well as the vividness of motor imagery. Results showed that experts produced greater temporal congruence and vividness of kinesthetic imagery while holding a basketball compared to when they were holding nothing, suggesting a facilitation effect from sport-specific implements. In contrast, experts produced lower temporal congruence and vividness of kinesthetic imagery while holding a volleyball compared to when they were holding nothing, suggesting the interference effect of nonspecific implements. Furthermore, we found a negative correlation between temporal congruence and the vividness of kinesthetic imagery in experts while holding a basketball. On the contrary, the implement manipulation did not modulate the temporal congruence of novices. Our findings suggest that motor representation in experts is built on motor experience associated with specific-implement use and thus was subjected to modulation of the implement held. We conclude that sport-specific implements facilitate motor imagery, whereas nonspecific implements could disrupt motor representation in experts. |
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spelling | pubmed-59265502018-05-01 Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery Zhang, Lanlan Pi, Yanling Zhu, Hua Shen, Cheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Yin PeerJ Neuroscience The present study tested whether sport-specific implements facilitate motor imagery, whereas nonspecific implements disrupt motor imagery. We asked a group of basketball players (experts) and a group of healthy controls (novices) to physically perform (motor execution) and mentally simulate (motor imagery) basketball throws. Subjects produced motor imagery when they were holding a basketball, a volleyball, or nothing. Motor imagery performance was measured by temporal congruence, which is the correspondence between imagery and execution times estimated as (imagery time minus execution time) divided by (imagery time plus execution time), as well as the vividness of motor imagery. Results showed that experts produced greater temporal congruence and vividness of kinesthetic imagery while holding a basketball compared to when they were holding nothing, suggesting a facilitation effect from sport-specific implements. In contrast, experts produced lower temporal congruence and vividness of kinesthetic imagery while holding a volleyball compared to when they were holding nothing, suggesting the interference effect of nonspecific implements. Furthermore, we found a negative correlation between temporal congruence and the vividness of kinesthetic imagery in experts while holding a basketball. On the contrary, the implement manipulation did not modulate the temporal congruence of novices. Our findings suggest that motor representation in experts is built on motor experience associated with specific-implement use and thus was subjected to modulation of the implement held. We conclude that sport-specific implements facilitate motor imagery, whereas nonspecific implements could disrupt motor representation in experts. PeerJ Inc. 2018-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5926550/ /pubmed/29719738 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4687 Text en ©2018 Zhang et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Zhang, Lanlan Pi, Yanling Zhu, Hua Shen, Cheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Yin Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery |
title | Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery |
title_full | Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery |
title_fullStr | Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery |
title_full_unstemmed | Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery |
title_short | Motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery |
title_sort | motor experience with a sport-specific implement affects motor imagery |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5926550/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29719738 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4687 |
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