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The Role of Motor Imagery in Predicting Motor Skills in Young Male Soccer Players

The study aimed to find out whether the imagery ability within the two subcomponents of motor imagery (visual and kinesthetic) allows predicting the results in simple response time task and eye–hand coordination task in a group of young male soccer players (9–15 years old). Non-specific simple respo...

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Autores principales: Zapała, Dariusz, Zabielska-Mendyk, Emilia, Cudo, Andrzej, Jaśkiewicz, Marta, Kwiatkowski, Marcin, Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8296134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200962
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126316
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author Zapała, Dariusz
Zabielska-Mendyk, Emilia
Cudo, Andrzej
Jaśkiewicz, Marta
Kwiatkowski, Marcin
Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka
author_facet Zapała, Dariusz
Zabielska-Mendyk, Emilia
Cudo, Andrzej
Jaśkiewicz, Marta
Kwiatkowski, Marcin
Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka
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description The study aimed to find out whether the imagery ability within the two subcomponents of motor imagery (visual and kinesthetic) allows predicting the results in simple response time task and eye–hand coordination task in a group of young male soccer players (9–15 years old). Non-specific simple response time and eye–hand coordination play a key role in predicting specific sports performance level. Participants performed Reaction Time Task, Eye–Hand Coordination Task, and completed Motor Imagery Questionnaire–Revised. Data were submitted to the structural equations analysis based on the maximum likelihood method in order to estimate a structural model of relationship between variables. Results indicate visual rather than kinesthetic motor imagery is associated with non-specific motor skills. Higher scores on the visual motor imagery scale were observed to correlate with faster reaction times and better coordination in the study group. This supports the idea that during learning a new perceptual-motor-task the visual control is required. Results provide the evidence for the specific role of the third-person perspective imagery in young athletes playing soccer.
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spelling pubmed-82961342021-07-23 The Role of Motor Imagery in Predicting Motor Skills in Young Male Soccer Players Zapała, Dariusz Zabielska-Mendyk, Emilia Cudo, Andrzej Jaśkiewicz, Marta Kwiatkowski, Marcin Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The study aimed to find out whether the imagery ability within the two subcomponents of motor imagery (visual and kinesthetic) allows predicting the results in simple response time task and eye–hand coordination task in a group of young male soccer players (9–15 years old). Non-specific simple response time and eye–hand coordination play a key role in predicting specific sports performance level. Participants performed Reaction Time Task, Eye–Hand Coordination Task, and completed Motor Imagery Questionnaire–Revised. Data were submitted to the structural equations analysis based on the maximum likelihood method in order to estimate a structural model of relationship between variables. Results indicate visual rather than kinesthetic motor imagery is associated with non-specific motor skills. Higher scores on the visual motor imagery scale were observed to correlate with faster reaction times and better coordination in the study group. This supports the idea that during learning a new perceptual-motor-task the visual control is required. Results provide the evidence for the specific role of the third-person perspective imagery in young athletes playing soccer. MDPI 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8296134/ /pubmed/34200962 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126316 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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The Role of Motor Imagery in Predicting Motor Skills in Young Male Soccer Players
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8296134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200962
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126316
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