Imagery Quality Estimated by Autonomic Response Is Correlated to Sporting Performance Enhancement
| Autor: | André Dittmar, Georges Delhomme, C. Deschaumes-Molinaro, R. Roure, E. Vernet-Maury, Christian Collet |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Audiology Autonomic Nervous System Session (web analytics) Developmental psychology Correlation Behavioral Neuroscience Heart Rate Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Quality (business) Motor skill Skin media_common Galvanic Skin Response Test (assessment) Regional Blood Flow Imagination Respiratory Mechanics Female Performance improvement Skin Temperature Psychology Performance enhancement Psychomotor Performance Sports Mental image |
| Zdroj: | Physiology & Behavior. 66:63-72 |
| ISSN: | 0031-9384 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0031-9384(99)00026-8 |
| Popis: | It is now well established that mental imagery practice improves motor skills, but performance efficiency depends on many factors: the main one being individual differences. The aim of this study is to evaluate performance improvement with imagery quality estimated during ANS recording. Volleyball training (“receiving serve”) afforded us the experimental paradigm. Subjects were required to pass an opponent’s serve to a given team mate. The receiver’s performance was evaluated from the accuracy of his pass to the targeted team mate. From these first test results, subjects were divided into two equivalent groups: imagers and controls. After mental practice the two groups were submitted to a posttest similar to the first one. During the pretest, posttest actual practice as well as the last session of corresponding mental rehearsal, six autonomic parameters were continuously recorded. Furthermore, and for the first time, a grade obtained from four different aspects of this response permits qualitative evaluation of each subject’s mental imagery. This estimation, based on the well-established link between performance and autonomic response, is validated by the fact that good correlation was obtained between this grade and the performance improvement of each of the “imager” group subjects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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