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Enhancing motor imagery practice using synchronous action observation.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based task paradigms in stroke rehabilitation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Combined action observation and motor imagery practice for upper limb recovery following stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Motor imagery in autism: a systematic review.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Cortical representation of multidimensional handwriting movement and implications for neuroprostheses.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Embodied simulations improve memory, but which is the most effective? The crucial role of action observation and its dynamic interplay with motor imagery ability.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Action Observation Combined With Motor Imagery Training to Improve Motor Function in People With Stroke: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2025Review
- Corticospinal excitability is facilitated during coordinative action observation and motor imagery.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Stimulus specificity in combined action observation and motor imagery of typing.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2025Article
- AMEEGNet: attention-based multiscale EEGNet for effective motor imagery EEG decoding.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2025Article
- Differences in Mu rhythm when seeing grasping/motor actions in a real context versus on screens.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Imagery and motor learning: a special issue on the neurocognitive mechanisms of imagery and imagery practice of motor actions.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Synchronous action observation and motor imagery may not always represent the optimal form of action simulation: a commentary on Eaves et al. (2022).Psychological research · 2024Review
- A commentary on Eaves et al. with a special focus on clinical neurorehabilitation.Psychological research · 2024Review
- A theoretical perspective on action consequences in action imagery: internal prediction as an essential mechanism to detect errors.Psychological research · 2024Review
- Learning motor actions via imagery-perceptual or motor learning?Psychological research · 2024Review
- Effect of concurrent action observation, peripheral nerve stimulation and motor imagery on dexterity in patients after stroke: a pilot study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Motor imagery drives the effects of combined action observation and motor imagery on corticospinal excitability for coordinative lower-limb actions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- No increase in corticospinal excitability during motor simulation provides a platform to explore the neurophysiology of aphantasia.Brain communications · 2024Article
- An international estimate of the prevalence of differing visual imagery abilities.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- What we imagine learning from watching others: how motor imagery modulates competency perceptions resulting from the repeated observation of a juggling action.Psychological research · 2023Article
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Abstract
In this paper, we discuss a variety of ways in which practising motor actions by means of motor imagery (MI) can be enhanced via synchronous action observation (AO), that is, by AO + MI. We review the available research on the (mostly facilitatory) behavioural effects of AO + MI practice in the early stages of skill acquisition, discuss possible theoretical explanations, and consider several issues related to the choice and presentation schedules of suitable models. We then discuss considerations related to AO + MI practice at advanced skill levels, including expertise effects, practical recommendations such as focussing attention on specific aspects of the observed action, using just-ahead models, and possible effects of the perspective in which the observed action is presented. In section "Coordinative AO + MI", we consider scenarios where the observer imagines performing an action that complements or responds to the observed action, as a promising and yet under-researched application of AO + MI training. In section "The dual action simulation hypothesis of AO + MI", we review the neurocognitive hypothesis that AO + MI practice involves two parallel action simulations, and we consider opportunities for future research based on recent neuroimaging work on parallel motor representations. In section "AO + MI training in motor rehabilitation", we review applications of AO, MI, and AO + MI training in the field of neurorehabilitation. Taken together, this evidence-based, exploratory review opens a variety of avenues for future research and applications of AO + MI practice, highlighting several clear advantages over the approaches of purely AO- or MI-based practice.
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